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CVE-2017-12607
A vulnerability in OpenOffice's PPT file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in PPTStyleSheet, allows attackers to craft malicious…
High7.8EPSS 2.6%
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- apache
Description
A vulnerability in OpenOffice's PPT file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in PPTStyleSheet, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Potential Arbitrary Code Execution
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache OpenOffice
- affected 4.0.0 to 4.1.3, and some previous releases, including some using our old OpenOffice.org brand
References (6)
- DSA-4022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2017-12607.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 101585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20171220 [SECURITY] [DLA 1214-1] libreoffice security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1039734 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1039732 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
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