UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16858

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16858

    Published: 4 Feb 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16858
    Aliases:
    USN-3883-1

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16858, https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/, https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2019/02/libreoffice-cve-2018-16858-remote-code.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3883-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16858

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libreoffice

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libreoffice@1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5

    Affected versions

    1:4.1.2~rc3-0ubuntu1
    1:4.1.2~rc3-0ubuntu2
    1:4.1.3-0ubuntu2
    1:4.1.3-0ubuntu3

    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