CVE-2019-5477

Critical

Description

A command injection vulnerability in Nokogiri v1.10.3 and earlier allows commands to be executed in a subprocess via Ruby's `Kernel.open` method. Processes are vulnerable only if the undocumented method `Nokogiri::CSS::Tokenizer#load_file` is being called with unsafe user input as the filename. This vulnerability appears in code generated by the Rexical gem versions v1.0.6 and earlier. Rexical is used by Nokogiri to generate lexical scanner code for parsing CSS queries. The underlying vulnerability was addressed in Rexical v1.0.7 and Nokogiri upgraded to this version of Rexical in Nokogiri v1.10.4.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductNokogiri
PublishedAug 16, 2019
First seenAug 16, 2019

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
nokogiri nokogiriv ≤ 1.10.3—
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10—
debian debian_linux8.0, 10.0—

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