race condition in the packaging of texlive-filesysten (SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1)

CVE-2020-8016
MEDIUM 4.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
suse
NVD status
Modified

Description

A Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the packaging of 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 to corrupt files or potentially escalate privileges. 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsuse
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · meissner@suse.de (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1affected texlive-filesystem < 2017.135-9.5.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4affected texlive-filesystem < 2013.74-16.5.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5affected texlive-filesystem < 2013.74-16.5.1
openSUSE · openSUSE Leap 15.1affected texlive-filesystem < 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD