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CVE-2018-16858

It was found that libreoffice before versions 6.0.7 and 6.1.3 was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack which could

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.92343
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.50 - high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
  • EPSS percentile: top 0% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules1

Affected Products & Versions

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libreoffice>= 6.1.0 and < 6.1.3

Detection Rules (IDS/IPS)

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Scoring & Timeline

7.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.0 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD25 Mar 2019 · 06:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10983-1
rhsaRHSA-2020:1598Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2020:1151Moderate
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2019:2183-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2019:2401-1
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