CVE-2020-8017

6.3 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (6.3) in opensuse. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

CVSS 3.1

6.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-367
Published: 2020-04-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

opensuse:leap
opensuse:texlive-filesystem

References

Check your stack JSON