Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem lawn-login-0.0.7

Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0

Date: 06/01/2014

OSVDB: 108576

CVE:Please Assign

Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/lawn-login

Gem Author: mike.skalnik[at]gmail.com

Author Contacted:6/25/2014

From: ./lawn-login-0.0.7/lib/lawn.rb

Line 24 exposes the password to the process table via the #{password} variable. If this Gem is used in the context of a rails application it maybe possible to inject commands remotely into the shell as these variables are not sanitized.

021- end
22-
23- def login(username, password)
24: `curl -s -f -F username=\{username}\ -F password=\{password}\ -F iss=\false\ -F output=\binary\ https://auth.lawn.gatech.edu/index.php` 25- end
26-end

Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/lawn-login-0.0.7.html