CVE-2016-10243

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 2, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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