Directory Traversal Affecting libreoffice-l10n-he package, versions <6.2.5.2-8.5.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.9% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBREOFFICEL10NHE-2740437
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed29 Jul 2019

Introduced: 29 Jul 2019

CVE-2018-16858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libreoffice-l10n-he to version 6.2.5.2-8.5.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-l10n-he package and not the libreoffice-l10n-he package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.