Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem kajam-1.0.3.rc2

Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0<br><br>Date: 06/01/2014

Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/kajam

Gem Author:  scienceblock@gmail.com

From: ./kajam-1.0.3.rc2/vendor/plugins/dataset/lib/dataset/database/postgresql.rb

Lines 18 and 24 expose the mysql user password to the process table via #{@password}. If this Gem is used in the context of a rails application it maybe possible to inject commands via user supplied input as these variables are not sanitized before being passed to the shell.

015-      
16-      def capture(datasets)
17-        return if datasets.nil? || datasets.empty?
18:        `pg_dump -c #{@database} > #{storage_path(datasets)}`
19-      end
20-      
21-      def restore(datasets)
22-        store = storage_path(datasets)
23-        if File.file?(store)
24:          `psql -U #{@username} -p #{@password} -e #{@database} < #{store}`
25-          true
26-        end
27-      end