CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8017

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2020-04-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-04-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-367

Description

A Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the cron job shipped with texlive-filesystem of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local users in group mktex to delete arbitrary files on the system This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-9.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1.

Affected configurations

• opensuse texlive-filesystem (< 2017.135-9.5.1) • opensuse texlive-filesystem (< 2013.74-16.5.1) • opensuse texlive-filesystem • opensuse texlive-filesystem (< 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1) • opensuse leap 15.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References