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CVE-2019-10780

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-10780 is a critical shell command injection vulnerability affecting BibTeX-ruby versions prior to 5.1.0, stemming from unsanitized user input being passed to Ruby's Kernel.open method. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers. It is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bibtex-ruby_project:bibtex-ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0281 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: bibtex-rubyFixed in: 5.1.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6critical

BibTeX-Ruby vulnerable to OS command injection

Feb 14, 2020

References

snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-RUBY-BIBTEXRUBY-542602
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory