Title: Rgpg 0.2.2 Ruby Gem Remote Command Injection


Date: 7/31/2013


Advisory Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0


CVE: CVE-2013-4203


Download: https://rubygems.org/gems/rgpg


Description:

"A simple Ruby wrapper around gpg command for file encryption.

rgpg is a simple API for interacting with the gpg tool. It is specifically designed to avoid altering global keyring state by creating temporary public and secret keyrings on the fly for encryption and decryption."


Vulnerability:

The following code snippet does not sanitize user supplied input before passing it to the System () function for execution. If this ApI is used in the context of a rails application remote commands can be injected into the shell.

in lib/rgpg/gpg_helper.rb:

 68       begin
 69         outputfile.close
 70         result = system("#{commandline} > #{output_file.path} 2>&1")
 71       ensure

Author: Notified 8/1/2013.


Fixed: in 0.2.3. 8/1/2013.


URL: http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/rgpg-api-rubygem-cmd-inj.html


Greets to all at DEFCON21.

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