From 2aadfc0fd3ef26a19a68cd3feb7c875270b6f912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:38:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for an Issue #851

---
 lib/utils/api.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/utils/api.py b/lib/utils/api.py
index 7a22bb123..78a1f1a31 100644
--- a/lib/utils/api.py
+++ b/lib/utils/api.py
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ class Task(object):
             shutil.rmtree(self.output_directory)
 
     def engine_start(self):
-        self.process = Popen("python sqlmap.py --pickled-options %s" % base64pickle(self.options),
-                             shell=True, stdin=PIPE, close_fds=False)
+        self.process = Popen(["python", "sqlmap.py", "--pickled-options", base64pickle(self.options)],
+                             shell=False, stdin=PIPE, close_fds=False)
 
     def engine_stop(self):
         if self.process: