lib/sup/message_chunks.rb in Sup before 0.13.2.1 and 0.14.x before 0.14.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the content_type of an email attachment.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - lib/sup/message_chunks.rb in Sup before 0.13.2.1 and 0.14.x before 0.14.1.1 allows remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the content_type of an email attachment.
    (CVE-2013-4479)

ruby-ncurses-1.3.1-16.fc23 - Fix Ruby 2.2 compatibility. rubygem- sup-0.21.0-3.fc23 - Relax rubygem-chronic dependency. - Temporary use ncurses, until rubygem-ncursesw is in Fedora. - Small cleanup.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered two command injection flaws in Sup, a console-based email client. An attacker might execute arbitrary command if the user opens a maliciously crafted email.

  - CVE-2013-4478     Sup wrongly handled the filename of attachments.

  - CVE-2013-4479     Sup did not sanitize the content-type of attachments.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
415746	SCA: security update for sup (GHSA-hh2x-7mf9-78fr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
415746	SCA: security update for sup (GHSA-hh2x-7mf9-78fr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
85830	Fedora 23 : ruby-ncurses-1.3.1-16.fc23 / rubygem-sup-0.21.0-3.fc23 (2015-14929)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
71118	Debian DSA-2805-1 : sup-mail - command injection	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2013-4479

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Tenable Plugins

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