CVE-2023-32700

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: May 20, 2023
Updated: Jan 31, 2025
Reserved: May 11, 2023

Description

LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source. This occurs because luatex-core.lua lets the original io.popen be accessed. This also affects TeX Live before 2023 r66984 and MiKTeX before 23.5.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html
https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/tags/1.17.0
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/releases/tag/build-svn66984
https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html
FEDORA-2023-38094d905cvendor-advisory
FEDORA-2023-d261122726vendor-advisory

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