CVE-2018-16858
high-risk
Published 2019-03-25
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.
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92.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 8% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 7.8/10
High
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (16)
Third Party Advisory
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858
Third Party Advisory
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
27/34 · High
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal