CVE-2007-4600: PTC Mathcad

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "Protect Worksheet" functionality in Mathsoft Mathcad 12 through 13.1, and PTC Mathcad 14, implements file access restrictions via a protection element in a gzipped XML file, which allows attackers to bypass these restrictions by removing this element.

Affected products

• PTC Mathcad: version 12 only; version 13 only; version 13.1 only; version 14 only

Published 2007-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.