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CVE-2015-5701

6.1 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.1) in tug texlive. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-59
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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