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CVE-2018-16858

Published: 4 February 2019

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libreoffice
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (6.0.7/6.1.3)
xenial
Released (1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6)
bionic Not vulnerable
(1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(1:6.1.4-0ubuntu0.18.10.1)
trusty
Released (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5)
Patches:
upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-6-0&id=b1c85cdb37a47998f8ab135fbc96f186334b171c (6.0)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H