CVE-2014-4991: Command injection vulnerability

January 10, 2018 (updated January 30, 2018)

It exposes the password to the process table, and is vulnerable to command injection if used in the context of a RoR application. The #{@username} and #{@password} variables aren’t properly sanitized before being passed to the command line.

References

www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/codders-dataset-1.3.2.1.html

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