CVE-2018-16858
Published: 04 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 |
Upstream |
Released
(6.0.7/6.1.3)
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
(1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
|
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6)
|
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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5])
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Patches: Upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-6-0&id=b1c85cdb37a47998f8ab135fbc96f186334b171c (6.0) |