CVE-2020-37012

9.3 criticalEPSS 0.9%

Critical (9.3). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tea LaTex 1.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands through the /api.php endpoint. Attackers can craft a malicious LaTeX payload with shell commands that are executed when processed by the application's tex2png API action.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.3 critical

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2026-01-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/latex.teainside.org
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48805
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tea-latex-remote-code-execution
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48805

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