CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.0%
Frank Lichtenheld discovered that the “texindex” program created
temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink
attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of
the user running texindex.