CVE-2016-10243
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.1%
exploitation probability
7.1%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL6PUKPWEXYIPIAZRIX5ZLQWCSALVLFP/https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593