CVE-2013-4479

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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.

Affected products

Supmua Sup: through 0.13.2; 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.14.0, 0.14.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165917.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2013-October/004996.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Oct/272
http://secunia.com/advisories/55294
http://secunia.com/advisories/55400
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2805
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/2
https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/commit/ca0302e0c716682d2de22e9136400c704cc93e42
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165917.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2013-October/004996.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Oct/272
http://secunia.com/advisories/55294

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