Directory Traversal Affecting libreoffice package, versions [,6.0.7)[6.1.0,6.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.9% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2370798
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 6.0.7, 6.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. 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.

CVSS Scores

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