CVE-2018-16858

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-356 CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 25, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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