Karteek Docsplit Gem for Ruby text_extractor.rb File Name Shell Metacharacter Injection Arbitrary Command Execution
Published: April 08, 2013
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2013-1933 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-4fvg-pwv7-v54g
- OSVDB: OSVDB-92117
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 9.3 (High)
PATCHED VERSIONS
None available.
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