Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2007-5936

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5936 describes a local information disclosure and data modification vulnerability in dvips, affecting teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by creating specific temporary files before dviljk processes them, allowing for unauthorized reading or modification of data. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.6, indicating local access and low attack complexity are required, with potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tetex:tetex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:texlive_2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5936Low

dviljk uses insecure temporary file

Nov 6, 2007

References

bugs.gentoo.org / attachment.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
osvdb.org / 42238
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/27672
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27686
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27718
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27743
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27967
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28107
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28412
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30168
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1928
usn.ubuntu.com / 554-1
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/26469
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3896