ADVISORIES

• OSVDB-108900
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

brbackup

PATCHED VERSIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

brbackup Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered as input passed via the ‘dbuser’ variable is not properly sanitized. This may allow a remote attacker to inject shell metacharacters and execute arbitrary commands.

RELATED

• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/10/6
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codesake/codesake-dawn/master/Roadmap.md
• http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/brbackup-0.1.1.html
• http://www.vapidlabs.com/advisory.php?v=25
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/108900