[Full-disclosure] Bio Basespace SDK 0.1.7 Ruby Gem exposes API Key via command line

["Larry W. Cashdollar" <larry0@xxxxxx>]

Title: Bio Basespace SDK 0.1.7 Ruby Gem exposes API Key via command line

Date: 11/15/2013

Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0

Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/bio-basespace-sdk

Description:
"BaseSpace Ruby SDK is a Ruby based Software Development Kit to be used in the 
development of Apps and scripts for working with Illumina's BaseSpace 
cloud-computing solution for next-gen sequencing data analysis. The primary 
purpose of the SDK is to provide an easy-to-use Ruby environment enabling 
developers to authenticate a user, retrieve data, and upload data/results from 
their own analysis to BaseSpace."

Vulnerability: The API client code passes the API_KEY to a curl command.  This 
exposes the api key to the shell and process table.  Another user on the system 
could snag the api key by just monitoring the process table. 

In the following code snippet:

bio-basespace-sdk-0.1.7/lib/basespace/api/api_client.rb
 # +headers+:: Header of the PUT call.
 # +trans_file+:: Path to the file that should be transferred.
 def put_call(resource_path, post_data, headers, trans_file)
   return %x(curl -H "x-access-token:#{@api_key}" -H 
"Content-MD5:#{headers['Content-MD5'].strip}" -T "#{trans_file}" -X PUT 
#{resource_path})
 end


Vendor: Notified 11/15/2013

Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/bio-basespace-sdk.html
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