CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10243
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 25
• fedoraproject fedora 26
• tug tex live
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL6PUKPWEXYIPIAZRIX5ZLQWCSALVLFP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL6PUKPWEXYIPIAZRIX5ZLQWCSALVLFP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605 Patch, Vendor Advisory