VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5701

medium
Published 2017-08-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
61%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
tugtexlive20100722
tugtexlive20110705
tugtexlive20120701
tugtexlive20130530
tugtexlive20140525

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.