CVE-2020-8017 (GCVE-0-2020-8017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-02 14:05 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:50
VLAI
Title
race condition on texlive-filesystem cron job allows for the deletion of unintended files
Summary
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 Affected: texlive-filesystem , < 2017.135-9.5.1 (custom)
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SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 Affected: texlive-filesystem , < 2013.74-16.5.1 (custom)
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SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 Affected: texlive-filesystem , < 2013.74-16.5.1 (custom)
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openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.1 Affected: texlive-filesystem , < 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-04-02 00:00
Credits
Matthias Gerstner of SUSE
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