{"id":"CVE-2024-40445","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-40445","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:14:49.432Z","title":"A directory traversal vulnerability in forkosh Mime TeX before version 1.77 allows attackers on Windows systems to read or append arbitrary files by manipulating crafted input paths.","description":"A directory traversal vulnerability in forkosh Mime TeX before version 1.77 allows attackers on Windows systems to read or append arbitrary files by manipulating crafted input paths.","published":"2025-04-22T14:15:24.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:45:53.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-77"],"affected":["ctan/mimetex"],"epss":{"score":0.00635,"percentile":0.50138,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.64%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/Oefenweb/mimetex/blob/master/mimetex.c#L12414-L12423","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/TaiYou-TW/CVE-2024-40445_CVE-2024-40446/","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://youtu.be/OII16TteaJw","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://youtu.be/W2KPHFNfgrg","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40445","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}