GHSA-229r-pqp6-8w6g

sprout Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-6421

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	sprout	0.7.246	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The `unpack_zip` function in `archive_unpacker.rb` in the sprout gem 0.7.246 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) filename or (2) path.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6421 advisory
https://github.com/lukebayes/project-sprouts package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sprout/CVE-2013-6421.yml web
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-12/0077.html web
http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/sprout-0.7.246-command-inj.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/03/1 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/03/6 web