High severity · published Sep 23, 2021
CVE-2021-33035
Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as spreadsheets
7.8
CVSS
50.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as spreadsheets. DBF are database files with data organized in fields. When reading DBF data the size of certain fields is not checked: the data is just copied into local variables. A carefully crafted document could overflow the allocated space, leading to the execution of arbitrary code by altering the contents of the program stack. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice up to and including version 4.1.10
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)50.6% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openoffice · Apache
through 4.1.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33035
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33035
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/3
Patch
https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/efddaef0151af3be16078cc4d88c6bae0f911e56#diff-ea66e734dd358922aba12ad4ba39c96bdc6cbde587d07dbc63d04daa0a30e90f
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1ab8532e11f41bc7ca057ac7e39cab25f2e1f9d5f4929788ae21c8b9%40%3Cusers.openoffice.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r929c0c6a53cad64a1007b878342756badbb05ddd9b8f31a6d0b424cb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
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