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CVE-2018-16858

libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 1, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

It was found that libreoffice 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 score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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