CVE-2015-5701 — Insecure Temporary File in Texlive

CWE-377 — Insecure Temporary FileCWE-59 — Link Following5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
TUG TexliveDebian Texlive-bin
Timeline
PublishedAug 25
Latest updateMay 17

Description

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 4.2

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDtug/texlive5 versions+4

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: www.tug.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-548j-7qqv-2mvf: mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr↗2015-01-11
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Debian
CVE-2015-5701: texlive-bin - mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5700 CVE-2015-5701 texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr↗2015-01-12
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