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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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.92372}

epss

{'score': 0.92413}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-03-25T17:43:08

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.146Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16858

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-25T18:29:00.463

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:27.727

Link: CVE-2018-16858

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16858 - Bugzilla