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CVE-2015-5701

Date: August 25, 2017

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.

Severity Score

6.1

Related Resources (8)

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5701

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5701

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

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

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5701

Severity Score

6.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3

Base Score:	6.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	NONE
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