VDB-ID: 91
Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem point-cli-0.0.1
Vulnerability Date: 2014-06-01
Download:  http://rubygems.org/gems/point-cli
Vendor: Adam Cooke
Notified: 2014-06-25
Vendor Contact: adam[at]atechmedia.com
Description: CLI client for the PointHQ DNS Hosting System.
Vulnerability: ./point-cli-0.0.1/lib/commands/setup.rb

Line 19 exposes the username and password combination to the process table. 
If this Gem is used in the context of a rails application it is possible to remotely inject commands if the #{username} and #{password} are supplied by the user.

016- 
18- 
19: command = "curl -q -s -u \"{username}:{password}\" {Point.site}/api_key" 20- if `{command}` =~ /(\w{40})/
21: api_key = $1
22- else
23- puts "\e[31mAccess was denied or the server was unavailable. Please check your username & password is correct.\e[0m" 
24- Process.exit(1)
25- end
26- 
27: config_json = {:username => username, :apitoken => api_key}.to_json 2
8- File.open($point_config_file, w) { |f| f.write(config_json)} 
29- puts "\e[32mConfiguration was successfully saved to #{$point_config_file}\e[0m" 30-end
CVE-IDs: 2014-4997
Exploit: 
URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/point-cli-0.0.1.html
Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0