🛡️ CVE-2023-32700 on Debian — texlive-bin

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-32700 as tracked by Debian, for the package texlive-bin. The fix is available in version 2022.20220321.62855-5.1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32700 is recorded against 1 package.

  • texlive-bin (fixed in 2022.20220321.62855-5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2023-32700 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-05-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
texlive-bin — 2022.20220321.62855-5.1

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