CVE-2023-51890 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An infinite loop issue discovered in Mathtex 1.05 and before allows a remote attackers to consume CPU resources via crafted string in the application URL.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Ctan	Mathtex

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ctan:mathtex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/

History

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-17T19:52:20.394Z

Reserved: 2023-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-51890

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:48:11.332Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-24T18:15:08.380

Modified: 2025-06-17T20:15:28.593

Link: CVE-2023-51890

Redhat

No data.

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