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CVE-2023-6186 — Insufficient macro permission validation of The Document Foundation LibreOffice

Insufficient macro permission validation of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to execute built-in macros without warning.

CVSS

8.3 HIGH

EPSS

1.09% (top 22.30%)

CWE

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Published

2023-12-11T11:56:40.349Z

Last modified

2025-02-13T17:26:08.751Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Insufficient macro permission validation of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to execute built-in macros without warning.

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Document Foundation	LibreOffice	7.5, 7.6

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

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

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

www.libreoffice.org — https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2023-6186
www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5574
lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…
lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html

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