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CVE-2012-5639

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-668

Description

LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: all versions
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• The Document Foundation LibreOffice: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/14/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/7
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5639
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5639
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r253f92d0e6511d07a79774002e1d9db1d20b24bff27914a5adb14ccb%40%3Cissues.openoffice.apache.org%3E
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5639
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/14/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/7

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