Product UI does not Warn User of Unsafe Actions Affecting libreoffice-help-ca package, versions <1:5.3.6.1-21.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.26% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBREOFFICEHELPCA-2143421
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Feb 2019

Introduced: 1 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-16858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-356  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 libreoffice-help-ca to version 1:5.3.6.1-21.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-help-ca package and not the libreoffice-help-ca package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was found that libreoffice before versions 6.0.7 and 6.1.3 was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack which could be used to execute arbitrary macros bundled with a document. An attacker could craft a document, which when opened by LibreOffice, would execute a Python method from a script in any arbitrary file system location, specified relative to the LibreOffice install location.