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Escape more characters for shell stuff #2302

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@ferd ferd commented Jun 6, 2020

As reported by Alexey Pronin, this would let people potentially pass in
URLs that can call to command execution.

While running arbitrary code is kind of our bread and butter, it makes
sense to at least play nicely and escape more characters:

  • the pipe (|) which can be used to run subcommands
  • the tab (\t) which the shell interprets as a space.
  • the home directory (~) just because the expansion could behave funny
  • redirection (< and >) to avoid problems with data setting up
    streams

As reported by Alexey Pronin, this would let people potentially pass in
URLs that can call to command execution.

While running arbitrary code is kind of our bread and butter, it makes
sense to at least play nicely and escape more characters:

- the pipe (`|`) which can be used to run subcommands
- the tab (`\t`) which the shell interprets as a space.
- the home directory (`~`) just because the expansion could behave funny
- redirection (`<` and `>`) to avoid problems with data setting up
  streams
@ferd ferd requested a review from tsloughter June 6, 2020 18:17
@ferd ferd merged commit d18e1be into erlang:master Jun 6, 2020
@ferd ferd deleted the escape-more-chars branch June 6, 2020 20:50
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