CVE-2016-10243: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 7.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 25 only; version 26 only
• Tug Tex Live: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.