Local File Write Vulnerability in mktexlsr (CVE-2021-XXXX)

CVE-2015-5701 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:C/A:N

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.

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