Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2015-5700 First vendor Publication 2017-08-25
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-10-12

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Overall CVSS Score 6.1
Base Score 6.1 Environmental Score 6.1
impact SubScore 4.2 Temporal Score 6.1
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact None
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 7.8 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5700

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=...
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?vie...
MISC https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/

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