CVE-2016-10243
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-02 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:14
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
References
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