CVE-2020-8017

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1texlive-filesystem < 2017.135-9.5.1affected
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4texlive-filesystem < 2013.74-16.5.1affected
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5texlive-filesystem < 2013.74-16.5.1affected
openSUSEopenSUSE Leap 15.1texlive-filesystem < 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-367: CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

References