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SCA: security update for bibtex-ruby (GHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422175

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2019-10780)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5r5-7pfh-6qg6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422175

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10780

cwe: CWE-78