Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU17362

Path traversal in LibreOffice - CVE-2018-16858

Published: February 4, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021

Vulnerability identifier: #VU17362

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16858

CWE-ID: CWE-22

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted Office file, conduct path traversal attack and execute a python method from a script in any arbitrary file system location

Affected software

LibreOffice
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Fedora
libreoffice-core (Ubuntu package)
libreoffice (Debian package)
libreoffice

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16858

The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 6.0.7, 6.1.3.

LibreOffice - addressed in versions 6.0.7, 6.1.3
libreoffice-core (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.5, 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial6
libreoffice (Debian package) - update to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u5
libreoffice - update to 6.0.7.3-1.fc28

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

External References

https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/