CVE-2015-5700

medium

Description

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6

https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log

https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-25

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00184