Medium severity · published Apr 2, 2020
CVE-2020-8017
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…
6.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
TE
Texlive-filesystem · Opensuse
before 2017.135-9.5.1; before 2013.74-16.5.1; before 2013.74-16.5.1; before 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8017
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8017
Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910
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