GHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6

BibTeX-Ruby vulnerable to OS command injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2019-10780

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	bibtex-ruby	< 5.1.0	5.1.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10780 advisory
https://github.com/inukshuk/bibtex-ruby/commit/14406f4460f4e1ecabd25ca94f809b3ea7c5fb11 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6 advisory
https://github.com/inukshuk/bibtex-ruby package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/bibtex-ruby/CVE-2019-10780.yml web
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-BIBTEXRUBY-542602 web