CVE-2019-5477

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 5.9% (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.9%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation5.9% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
5.9%
EPSS %ILE
93rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
5.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-20). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 16, 2019

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Oct 5, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

CVE-2019-5477 - Nokogiri Command Injection Vulnerability · Issue #1915 · sparklemotion/nokogiri · GitHub

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1915
Web page

Nokogiri: Command injection (GLSA 202006-05) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-05
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3150-1] rexical security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00019.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3149-1] ruby-nokogiri security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00018.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 1933-1] ruby-nokogiri security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00027.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubunturuby-nokogiri (1.10.3+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1) @ eoan2026-10-21ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(13 across 7 ecosystems)
Debian:10(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rexical1.0.5-2
  • every version up to 1.0.5-2+deb10u1: fixed in 1.0.5-2+deb10u1
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ruby-nokogiri1.10.0+dfsg1-2
  • every version up to 1.10.0+dfsg1-2+deb10u1: fixed in 1.10.0+dfsg1-2+deb10u1
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Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rexical—
  • every version up to 1.0.7-1: fixed in 1.0.7-1
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ruby-nokogiri—
  • every version up to 1.10.4+dfsg1-1: fixed in 1.10.4+dfsg1-1
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Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rexical—
  • every version up to 1.0.7-1: fixed in 1.0.7-1
—
ruby-nokogiri—
  • every version up to 1.10.4+dfsg1-1: fixed in 1.10.4+dfsg1-1
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Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rexical—
  • every version up to 1.0.7-1: fixed in 1.0.7-1
—
ruby-nokogiri—
  • every version up to 1.10.4+dfsg1-1: fixed in 1.10.4+dfsg1-1
—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rexical—
  • every version up to 1.0.7-1: fixed in 1.0.7-1
—
ruby-nokogiri—
  • every version up to 1.10.4+dfsg1-1: fixed in 1.10.4+dfsg1-1
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RubyGems(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nokogiri1.0.0 ... 1.9.1 (113 versions)
  • every version up to 1.10.4: fixed in 1.10.4
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rexical1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.5.beta1, 1.0.5.beta2
  • every version up to 1.0.7: fixed in 1.0.7
—
Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ruby-nokogiri1.6.3.1+ds-1
  • every version up to 1.6.3.1+ds-1+deb8u1: fixed in 1.6.3.1+ds-1+deb8u1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

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A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 84 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-5477?
CVE-2019-5477 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 16, 2019. 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…
When was CVE-2019-5477 made public?
CVE-2019-5477 was made public on July 20, 2019: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, HackerOne, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 16, 2019. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2019-5477 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-5477 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-5477?
CVE-2019-5477 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-5477?
A fix for CVE-2019-5477 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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