CVE-2023-1183: Arbitrary file write

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 64.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A flaw was found in the Libreoffice package. An attacker can craft an odb containing a "database/script" file with a SCRIPT command where the contents of the file could be written to a new file whose location was determined by the attacker.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
The Document Foundation LibreOffice: before 7.4.6; 7.5.0 — fixed in 7.4.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0, 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: The Document Foundation LibreOffice 7.4.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/4
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208506
https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2023-1183/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/4
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208506
https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2023-1183/

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