CVE-2020-37012 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2020-37012

Tea LaTex 1.0 - Remote Code Execution

9.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

nepska

References

Affected Vendor

ammarfaizi2

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Affected Software

Tea LaTex

Vulnerable Versions:

1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 29th, 2026

Last Modified: January 29th, 2026

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1005 Data from Local System

T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel