CVE-2016-10243

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 25, 26
Tug Tex Live: all versions

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593
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/201709-07
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/

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