CVE-2018-16858

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

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

90%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-46727 local multiple verified

Metasploit · 2019-04-18

LibreOffice < 6.0.7 / 6.1.3 - Macro Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec rank 300

LibreOffice Macro Code Execution

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`6.1.3-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:6.1.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:6.1.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:6.1.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:6.1.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:6.1.3-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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