Privilege Escalation Affecting libreoffice package, versions [7.4.0,7.4.7)[7.5.0,7.53)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-5603199
  • published26 May 2023
  • disclosed26 May 2023
  • creditAmel Bouziane-Leblond

Introduced: 26 May 2023

CVE-2023-2255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 7.4.7, 7.53 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of LibreOffice documents that used floating frames linked to external files, would load the contents of those frames without prompting the user for permission to do so.

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