CVE-2018-16858
Published: 4 February 2019
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.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 9.8
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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libreoffice Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Not vulnerable
(1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
|
cosmic |
Not vulnerable
(1:6.1.4-0ubuntu0.18.10.1)
|
|
precise |
Does not exist
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5])
|
|
upstream |
Released
(6.0.7/6.1.3)
|
|
xenial |
Released
(1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6)
|
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian