CVE-2018-16858
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16858
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16858.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 6.1.3-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:6.1.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:6.1.3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:6.1.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:6.1.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:6.1.3-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.