CVE-2020-37012

Tea LaTex 1.0 - Remote Code Execution

CVSS 9.3 CRITICALEPSS 0.8%CWE-78

Vexday Risk Score

28Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 9.3EPSS 0.8%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

29 Jan 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

ammarfaizi2 · Tea LaTex

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