VDB-ID: 68
Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem lawn-login-0.0.7
Vulnerability Date: 2014-06-01
Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/lawn-login
Vendor: Mike Skalnik
Notified: 2014-06-25
Vendor Contact: mike.skalnik@gmail.com
Description: A small gem which provides a secure method of logging into the GATech LAWN network.
Vulnerability: From: ./lawn-login-0.0.7/lib/lawn.rb

Line 24 exposes the password to the process table via the #{password} variable. If this Gem is used in the context of a rails application it maybe possible to inject commands remotely into the shell as these variables are not sanitized.

021- end
22- 
23- def login(username, password)
24: `curl -s -f -F username=\{username}\ -F password=\{password}\ -F iss=\false\ -F output=\binary\ https://auth.lawn.gatech.edu/index.php` 25- end
26-end


CVE-IDs: 2014-5000
Exploit: 
URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/lawn-login-0.0.7.html
Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0