CVE-2020-8017

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.3

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.023

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
SUSE-SU-2020:1581-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 ) libkpathsea6-6.2.0dev-22.8.2.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2020:1581-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 ) libkpathsea6-debuginfo-6.2.0dev-22.8.2.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2020:1581-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libkpathsea6-6.2.0dev-22.8.2.x86_64_SP5.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2020:1581-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libkpathsea6-debuginfo-6.2.0dev-22.8.2.x86_64_SP5.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234