CVE-2011-1400

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of the shell_escape_commands directive in conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in Debian GNU/Linux squeeze, Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, and possibly other operating systems lists certain programs, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TeX document.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 10.10
Debian Linux: all versions
Debian Tex-Common: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+71)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/43816
http://secunia.com/advisories/43973
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/?op=comp&compare%5B%5D=%2Ftex-common%2Ftrunk%404781&compare%5B%5D=%2Ftex-common%2Ftrunk%404812
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tex-common/trunk/?op=log
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2198
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46986
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1103-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0731
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0861
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66249
http://secunia.com/advisories/43816
http://secunia.com/advisories/43973

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