BibTeX-Ruby vulnerable to OS command injection · CVE-2019-10780 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

BibTeX-Ruby vulnerable to OS command injection

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 14, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2023

Package

bibtex-ruby (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 5.0.1

Patched versions

5.1.0

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.

References

Reviewed Feb 13, 2020

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 14, 2020

Last updated Aug 28, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H