PT-2022-7760 · Unknown · Awesome Spawn

Published 2022-06-30 · Updated 2022-07-12 · CVE-2014-0156

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Awesome spawn versions prior to 1.2.0

Description The issue allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as arguments. If untrusted input was included in command arguments, an attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.0, update to version 1.2.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider validating and sanitizing all input passed to Awesome spawn as arguments to prevent the execution of arbitrary commands. Restrict access to Awesome spawn to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-0156

GHSA-QPQW-MC85-QVM9

Affected Products

Awesome Spawn

References · 5

• https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn/commit/e524f85f1c6e292ef7d117d7818521307ac269ff · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qpqw-mc85-qvm9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0156 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn · Note
• https://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2014-0156 · Note