Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5701

Title: Tug Texlive

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5701.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Aug 25, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5701: 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.

Impacted Vendors

tug 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167 https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885 https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167 https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885 https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns