CVE-2020-8017: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Opensuse Texlive-Filesystem: before 2017.135-9.5.1 (fixed in 2017.135-9.5.1); before 2013.74-16.5.1 (fixed in 2013.74-16.5.1); affected versions not specified; before 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1 (fixed in 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1)

Published 2020-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.