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Apache OpenOffice -- Unrestricted actions leads to arbitrary code execution in crafted documents

Affected packages
apache-openoffice < 4.1.8
apache-openoffice-devel < 4.2.1602022694,4

Details

VuXML ID 4f15ca7b-23ae-11eb-9f59-1c1b0d9ea7e6
Discovery 2020-04-28
Entry 2020-11-10

The Apache Openofffice project reports:

CVE-2020-13958 Unrestricted actions leads to arbitrary code execution in crafted documents

Description

A vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice scripting events allows an attacker to construct documents containing hyperlinks pointing to an executable on the target users file system. These hyperlinks can be triggered unconditionally. In fixed versions no internal protocol may be called from the document event handler and other hyperlinks require a control-click.

Severity: Low

There are no known exploits of this vulnerability.
A proof-of-concept demonstration exists.

Thanks to the reporter for discovering this issue.

Acknowledgments

The Apache OpenOffice Security Team would like to thank Imre Rad for discovering and reporting this attack vector.

References

CVE Name CVE-2020-13958
URL https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2020-13958.html