Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem karo-2.3.8

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

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

Gem Author:  rahul.trikha@gmail.com

From: ./karo-2.3.8/lib/karo/db.rb

Line 76 and 95 passes unsanitized user supplied input to the command line.  If this gem is used in the context of a rails application malicious input could lead to remote command injection.

073-      host = "#{@configuration["user"]}@#{@configuration["host"]}"
74-      cmd  = "ssh #{host} cat #{server_db_config_file}"
75-
76:      server_db_config_output = `#{cmd}`
79-
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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"]}