CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-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 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-22, CWE-356
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- libreoffice:libreoffice
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00059.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152560/LibreOffice-Macro-Code-Execution.html
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858