ADVISORIES

• CVE-2013-1933 (NVD)
• GHSA-4fvg-pwv7-v54g
• OSVDB-92117

GEM

karteek-docsplit

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 9.3 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

Karteek Docsplit Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the program failing to properly sanitize input passed to text_extractor.rb. With a specially crafted file name that contains shell metacharacters, a context-dependent attacker can execute arbitrary commands