# CVE-2014-0156: Awesome spawn contains OS command injection vulnerability, which allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as argument

- Also known as: GHSA-QPQW-MC85-QVM9
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.0
- Published: 2022-06-30 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a awesome\_spawn: from 1.30
- awesome\_spawn (RubyGems): fixed in 1.2.0

## Description

Awesome spawn contains OS command injection vulnerability, which allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as arguments. If untrusted input was included in command arguments, attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary command.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a awesome\_spawn, awesome\_spawn, upgrade to a fixed version (1.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2014-0156/
- https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn/commit/e524f85f1c6e292ef7d117d7818521307ac269ff

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