Vulnerability · Published May 20, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-32700

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity command injection in the texlive package (AlmaLinux). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 57% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 42.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9texlive9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-adjustbox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ae9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-algorithms9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-alphalph9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-amscls9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-amsfonts9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-amsmath9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-anyfontsize9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-anysize9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-appendix9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-arabxetex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-arphic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-atbegshi9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-attachfile9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-attachfile29:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-atveryend9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-auxhook9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-avantgar9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-awesomebox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-babel9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-babel-english9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-babelbib9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-base9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-beamer9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bera9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-beton9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bibtex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bibtopic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bidi9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bigfoot9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bigintcalc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bitset9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bookman9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-bookmark9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-booktabs9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-breakurl9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-breqn9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-capt-of9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-caption9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-carlisle9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-catchfile9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-changebar9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-changepage9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-charter9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-chngcntr9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cite9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cjk9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-classpack9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cm9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cm-lgc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cm-super9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cmap9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cmextra9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-cns9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collectbox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-basic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-fontsrecommended9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-htmlxml9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-latex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-latexrecommended9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-collection-xetex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-colorprofiles9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-colortbl9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-context9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-courier9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-crop9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-csquotes9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ctable9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ctablestack9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-currfile9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-datetime9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-dehyph9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-dvipdfmx9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-dvipng9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-dvips9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-dvisvgm9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ec9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-eepic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-enctex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-enumitem9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-environ9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-epsf9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-epstopdf9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-epstopdf-pkg9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-eqparbox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-eso-pic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-etex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-etex-pkg9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-etexcmds9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-etoc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-etoolbox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-euenc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-euler9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-euro9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-eurosym9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-extsizes9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fancybox9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fancyhdr9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fancyref9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fancyvrb9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-filecontents9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-filehook9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-finstrut9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fix2col9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fixlatvian9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-float9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fmtcount9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fncychap9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fontawesome9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fontbook9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fonts-tlwg9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fontspec9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fontware9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fontwrap9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-footmisc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-footnotehyper9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fp9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-fpl9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-framed9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-garuda-c909:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-geometry9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-gettitlestring9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-glyphlist9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-gnu-freefont9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-graphics9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-graphics-cfg9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-graphics-def9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-grfext9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-grffile9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-gsftopk9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hanging9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-helvetic9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hobsub9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hologo9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hycolor9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hyperref9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hyph-utf89:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hyphen-base9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hyphenat9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-hyphenex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ifmtarg9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ifoddpage9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ifplatform9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-iftex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-import9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-index9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-infwarerr9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-intcalc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-jadetex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-jknapltx9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kastrup9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kerkis9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-knuth-lib9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-knuth-local9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-koma-script9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kpathsea9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kvdefinekeys9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kvoptions9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-kvsetkeys9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-l3backend9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-l3experimental9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-l3kernel9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-l3packages9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lastpage9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-latex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-latex-fonts9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-latex2man9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-latexbug9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-latexconfig9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-letltxmacro9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lettrine9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lib9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lib-devel9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-linegoal9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lineno9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-listings9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-listofitems9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lm9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lm-math9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ltabptch9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ltxcmds9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-ltxmisc9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lua-alt-getopt9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-luahbtex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lualatex-math9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lualibs9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-luaotfload9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-luatex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-luatex859:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-luatexbase9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-lwarp9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-makecmds9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-makeindex9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-manfnt-font9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-marginnote9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-marvosym9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-mathpazo9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-mathspec9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661
AlmaLinux:9texlive-mathtools9:20200406-26.el9_2ALSA-2023:3661

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References