Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-32700

High

Published: 20 May 2023

Published
20 May 2023
Modified
31 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0029 53.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-32700 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Luatex Project Luatex. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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23.5.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-77

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

luatex project
luatex
1.04 — 1.16.2
miktex
miktex
2.9.6300 — 23.5
tug
tex live
2017 — 2023

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References