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CVE-2016-10243

Published: 02/05/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

TeX Live allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: texlive-base vulnerability
TeX Live could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3803-1 texlive-base -- security update
It was discovered that texlive-base, the TeX Live package which provides the essential TeX programs and files, whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code (called \write18) Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when comp ...
Red Hat: CVE-2016-10243
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmfcnf config file ...

References

CWE-20https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL6PUKPWEXYIPIAZRIX5ZLQWCSALVLFP/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3401-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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