CVE-2020-13958

Severity

78%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

98%

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.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2020-11-17 16:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-12-01 15:07:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation OpenOffice

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6b2f48cf6c4aad4ebd13f90033162276b0ccae63bea2d3d89cdaf355%40%3Cannounce.openoffice.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6b2f48cf6c4aad4ebd13f90033162276b0ccae63bea2d3d89cdaf355%40%3Cannounce.openoffice.apache.org%3E

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