Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-10780
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2019-10780
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2020-01-22T14:15:11.433+00:00"
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