CVE-2020-8017

MEDIUM 6.3CVE-2020-8017 · Published 02/04/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8017 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.3) vulnerability affecting texlive-filesystem (opensuse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.20%, higher than 10.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2013.74-16.5.1, 2017.135-9.5.1, 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
texlive-filesystem opensuse	`< 2013.74-16.5.1< 2017.135-9.5.1< 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1`	`2013.74-16.5.12017.135-9.5.12017.135-lp151.8.3.1`

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

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html · Broken Link
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

texlive-filesystem

opensuse

< 2013.74-16.5.1< 2017.135-9.5.1< 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1

2013.74-16.5.12017.135-9.5.12017.135-lp151.8.3.1

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