VDB-ID: 79 Title: Command injection in Ruby Gem Webbynode 1.0.5.3 Vulnerability Date: 2014-11-11 Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/webbynode Vendor: Felipe Coury Notified: 2014-11-11 Vendor Contact: felipe.coury@gmail.com Description: Webbynode Deployment Gem Vulnerability: The following code located in: ./webbynode-1.0.5.3/lib/webbynode/notify.rb doesn't fully sanitize user supplied input before passing it to the shell via %x. Messages via the growlnotify command line can possibly be used to execute shell commands if the message contains shell meta characters. def self.message(message) if self.installed? and !$testing message = message.gsub(/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]/, "") %x(growlnotify -t "#{TITLE}" -m "#{message}" --image "#{IMAGE_PATH}") end end The message.gsub regex strips ANSI encoded characters from the #{message} variable, it doesn't strip characters like ;&| etc. If the attacker can control the contents of #{message}, #{TITLE} or #{IMAGE_PATH} they can possibly inject shell commands and execute them as the client user. CVE-IDs: 2013-7086 Exploit: URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/webbynode-command-inj.html Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0