ADVISORIES

• OSVDB-117903
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

ruby-saml

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 0.8.2

DESCRIPTION

ruby-saml contains a flaw that is triggered as the URI value of a SAML response is not properly sanitized through a prepared statement. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the host machine.

RELATED

• https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/publicly-exploitable-command-injection-in-ruby-saml-0-7-2-library-can-root-the-host
• https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/282
• https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/pull/225#issuecomment-120084288
• https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/1b4e3dd6d2d44efa629144b2180842456bfb2a0f#diff-661b9d9743a3ff77661f224c6191165cL242
• https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/WS-2015-0040
• http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/117903