Title: Square Hoptoad Notifier v2.4.8 Ruby Gem API Key exposure
Date: 4/15/2014
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar
Description: "Send your application errors to our hosted service and reclaim your inbox."
Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/square-hoptoad_notifier
Vulnerability: Line 23 exposes thei Heroku API key to the process table via the heroku command being passed to the shell.
In square-hoptoad_notifier-2.4.8/lib/hoptoad_notifier/shared_tasks.rb: 22
23 command = %Q(heroku addons:add deployhooks:http url="http://hoptoadapp.com/deploys.txt?deploy[rails_env]={heroku_rails_env}&api_key={heroku_api_key}") 24 25 puts "\nRunning:\n{command}\n" 26 puts `{command}`
Vendor Notified: 4/15/2014
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/hotpad-notifier-api.html