What is CVE-2019-10780?

CVE-2019-10780 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bibtex-Ruby Project, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2019-10780?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Bibtex-Ruby Project

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 Kernel.open method through BibTeX.open.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.028 (85.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Bibtex-ruby_project Bibtex-ruby
N/a Bibtex-ruby — versions All versions prior to version 5.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

report@snyk.io (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10780?: CVE-2019-10780 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bibtex-Ruby Project, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2019-10780?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.