CVE-2020-8017

lowpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.002 · 10 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.20% (10th) EPSS

CVSS 3.3 · low

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the cron job shipped with texlive-filesystem of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local users in group mktex to delete arbitrary files on the system This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-9.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.3–6.3

v2.03.3lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 4.9

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 5.2

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · meissner@suse.deexploitability 2.5 · impact 3.6

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-367USprimary

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1texlive-filesystem → 2017.135-9.5.1enisa_euvdEU
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4texlive-filesystem → 2013.74-16.5.1enisa_euvdEU
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5texlive-filesystem → 2013.74-16.5.1enisa_euvdEU
openSUSE Leap 15.1texlive-filesystem → 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1enisa_euvdEU
opensuse leap= 15.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse texlive-filesystemall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:opensuse:texlive-filesystem:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse texlive-filesystem< 2013.74-16.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:opensuse:texlive-filesystem:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse texlive-filesystem< 2017.135-9.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:opensuse:texlive-filesystem:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse texlive-filesystem< 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:opensuse:texlive-filesystem:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html cnnvd
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8017 cnnvd
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html enisa_euvd
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910 enisa_euvd
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.htmlBroken LinkMailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910Issue TrackingVendor Advisorynvd

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