LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content

Description

LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.8% · top 6.8% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• UNKNOWN_TYPE
• CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• LibreOffice; OpenOffice · LibreOffice, OpenOffice

  • affected through at least 2012-12-15

References (8)

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/14/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• Red Hat (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [openoffice-issues] 20201025 [Issue 121493] CVE-2012-5639: Remote file inclusion by office application (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 13 Feb 2025, 16:27 UTC.