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CVE-2019-10780
BibTeX-ruby before 5.1.0 allows shell command injection due to unsanitized user input being passed directly to the built-in Ruby…
Critical9.8EPSS 2.8%
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- snyk
Description
BibTeX-ruby before 5.1.0 allows shell command injection due to unsanitized user input being passed directly to the built-in Ruby Kernel.open method through BibTeX.open.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Command Injection
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
BibTeX-ruby
- affected All versions prior to version 5.1.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsbibtex-rubyGHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-BIBTEXRUBY-542602 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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