CVE-2018-16858
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-356
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)68%
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00059.html
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_execAdvisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/28
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152560/LibreOffice-Macro-Code-Execution.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46727/Advisory