PT-2026-5287 · Tea Latex · Tea Latex

Nepska · Published 2026-01-29 · Updated 2026-01-29 · CVE-2020-37012

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tea LaTex version 1.0

Description Tea LaTex 1.0 contains a remote code execution issue that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands. This is achieved through the /api.php endpoint by crafting a malicious LaTeX payload with shell commands. These commands are executed when processed by the application’s tex2png API action.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-37012

Affected Products

Tea Latex

References · 5

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/48805 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37012 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/latex.teainside.org · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/43236 · Telegram Post
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/tea-latex-remote-code-execution · Note