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CVE-2015-5701 (GCVE-0-2015-5701)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-25 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:59
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Summary
mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-01-11 00:00
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.