🛡️ CVE-2023-32700
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-20
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-01-31

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
luatex 1.04 1.16.2
miktex 2.9.6300 23.5
tex-live 2017 2023

References

Patch, Vendor Advisory https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html

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