ghsa-qfwq-chf4-jvwg
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 01:49
Modified
2025-08-15 13:55
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
karo Metacharacter Handling Remote Command Execution
Details

The karo gem through 2.5.2 for Ruby allows Remote command injection via the host field.

A flaw in db.rb is triggered when handling metacharacters. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

In particular lines 76 and 95 (as of 2014-06-01) pass unsanitized user supplied input to the command line.

73- host = "{@configuration["user"]}@{@configuration["host"]}" 74- cmd = "ssh #{host} cat {server_db_config_file}" 75- 76: server_db_config_output = `{cmd}` 79- -- 89- def drop_and_create_local_database(local_db_config) 90- command = case local_db_config["adapter"] 91- when "mysql2" 93- when "postgresql" 95- dropdb -h #{local_db_config["host"]} -U #{local_db_config["username"]} --if-exists #{local_db_config["database"]}

If this gem is used in the context of a rails application malicious input could lead to remote command injection. As of version 2.5.2 the affected code lines have not changed.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "karo"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "2.5.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2014-10075"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-77"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-29T20:26:16Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-10-05T06:29:00Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "The karo gem through 2.5.2 for Ruby allows Remote command injection via the host field.\n\nA flaw in `db.rb` is triggered when handling metacharacters. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.\n\nIn particular lines 76 and 95 (as of `2014-06-01`) pass unsanitized user supplied input to the command line. \n\n```\n73-      host = \"{@configuration[\"user\"]}@{@configuration[\"host\"]}\"\n74-      cmd  = \"ssh #{host} cat {server_db_config_file}\"\n75-\n76:      server_db_config_output = `{cmd}`\n79-\n--\n89- def drop_and_create_local_database(local_db_config)\n90-      command = case local_db_config[\"adapter\"]\n91-      when \"mysql2\"\n93-      when \"postgresql\"\n95-          dropdb -h #{local_db_config[\"host\"]} -U #{local_db_config[\"username\"]} --if-exists #{local_db_config[\"database\"]}\n```\n\nIf this gem is used in the context of a rails application malicious input could lead to remote command injection. As of version 2.5.2 the affected code lines have not changed.",
  "id": "GHSA-qfwq-chf4-jvwg",
  "modified": "2025-08-15T13:55:26Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:49:44Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-10075"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/rahult/karo"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rahult/karo/blob/master/lib/karo/db.rb#L76"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rahult/karo/blob/master/lib/karo/db.rb#L95"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/karo/CVE-2014-10075.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/karo-2.3.8.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vapidlabs.com/advisory.php?v=63"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "karo Metacharacter Handling Remote Command Execution"
}


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