CVE-2018-16858

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    CVE-2018-16858

    Published: 25 Mar 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00059.html, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/28, http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130, https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152560/LibreOffice-Macro-Code-Execution.html, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46727/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -da2c4acc4e2e51252d2ef1751bc77966be32ec80

    Affected versions

    cib-6.1-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High