GHSA-xwr3-fmgj-mmfr

Exposure of Sensitive Information in bio-basespace-sdk

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-7111

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	bio-basespace-sdk	<= 0.1.7	no fix listed

Details

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

The put_call function in the API client (`api/api_client.rb`) in the BaseSpace Ruby SDK (aka bio-basespace-sdk) gem 0.1.7 for Ruby uses the `API_KEY` on the command line, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by listing the processes.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7111 advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xwr3-fmgj-mmfr advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/bio-basespace-sdk/CVE-2013-7111.yml web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/14/2 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/15/5 web
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/bio-basespace-sdk.html web