OSVDB-97854: Windows Shell Escaping Weakness

September 1, 2011

The gem contains a flaw that is due to the program failing to properly escape a shell that contains injected characters. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands.

References

osvdb.org/show/osvdb/97854

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