CVE-2018-16858 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00059.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152560/LibreOffice-Macro-Code-Execution.html http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/fileformat/libreoffice_macro_exec https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16858 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/28 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46727/ https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8