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ghsa-h4jv-xw7f-wjrg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-11-12 09:30

Modified

2025-11-13 15:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of Apache OpenOffice, Calc spreadsheet containing DDE links to external files would load the contents of those files without prompting the user for permission to do so.

This issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.15.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.16, which fixes the issue.

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CVE-2025-64405 (GCVE-0-2025-64405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-11-12 09:10

Modified

2025-11-13 16:40

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Summary

Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of Apache OpenOffice, Calc spreadsheet containing DDE links to external files would load the contents of those files without prompting the user for permission to do so. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.15. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.16, which fixes the issue.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2025-64405.html	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.apache.org/thread/0jjftxkcc4l9kt7jjn630hfrh2ygfcbk	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache OpenOffice	Version: 0 ≤ 4.1.15

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