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authorMunyoki Kilyungi2024-02-26 22:04:36 +0300
committerBonfaceKilz2024-03-26 10:01:13 +0300
commitd45656c53fadcfb774ebc1e35b4d084202ec4ff7 (patch)
tree3b461464116e36cc19b32ae157599c0ae81b30dc
parent0a7a63daafb741ac79d3f6a4bb733e854bc42509 (diff)
downloadgenenetwork2-d45656c53fadcfb774ebc1e35b4d084202ec4ff7.tar.gz
Prevent shell injection by disabling shell invocation in subprocess.
See:
   <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52019920/python3-sanitizing-user-input-passed-to-shell-as-parameter>
for more information.

Signed-off-by: Munyoki Kilyungi <me@bonfacemunyoki.com>
-rw-r--r--gn2/wqflask/edit.py3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gn2/wqflask/edit.py b/gn2/wqflask/edit.py
index a3e684cf..7abba0b5 100644
--- a/gn2/wqflask/edit.py
+++ b/gn2/wqflask/edit.py
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ def save_dataset_metadata(
     @curry(2)
     def __run_cmd(cmd, status_code):
         __result = subprocess.run(
-            cmd.split(" "), shell=True,
-            capture_output=True
+            cmd, capture_output=True
         )
         if __result.stderr or status_code != 0:
             return Left({