High severity · published Nov 17, 2020
CVE-2020-13958
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
7.8
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openoffice · Apache
4.0.0 before 4.1.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13958
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-13958
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6b2f48cf6c4aad4ebd13f90033162276b0ccae63bea2d3d89cdaf355%40%3Cannounce.openoffice.apache.org%3E
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