CVE-2015-5701

Publication date 25 August 2017

Last updated 16 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
texlive-bin	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

Debian/Ubuntu never reintroduced this; mktexlsr-use-mktemp patch

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N