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CVE-2023-2255 — Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOff

Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of LibreOffice documents that used "floating frames" linked

CVSS
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EPSS
49.45% (top 2.20%)
CWE
CWE-264
Published
2023-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T06:19:14.082Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of LibreOffice documents that used "floating frames" linked to external files, would load the contents of those frames without prompting the user for permission to do so. This was…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
The Document FoundationLibreOffice7.4, 7.5

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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