CVE-2020-8017

MEDIUM

texlive-filesystem <2017.135-9 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 6.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-367

Status published

Products (3)

opensuse/leap 15.1

opensuse/texlive-filesystem

opensuse/texlive-filesystem < 2017.135-9.5.1

Published Apr 02, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026