Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5940

RCE

Title: Tug Texlive 2007 RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5940.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Nov 13, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5940: feynmf.pl in feynmf 1.08, as used in TeXLive 2007, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the feynmf$$.pl temporary file.

Impacted Vendors

tug 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231 http://osvdb.org/42397 http://secunia.com/advisories/27737 http://secunia.com/advisories/27739 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26507 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3974 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231 http://osvdb.org/42397 http://secunia.com/advisories/27737 http://secunia.com/advisories/27739 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26507 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3974

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5940 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 13, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.