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CVE-2024-12426: URL fetching can be used to exfiltrate arbitrary INI file values and environment variables

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Exposure of Environmental Variables and arbitrary INI file values to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice. URLs could be constructed which expanded environmental variables or INI file values, so potentially sensitive information could be exfiltrated to a remote server on opening a document containing such links. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before < 24.8.4.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• The Document Foundation LibreOffice: from 24.8.0.1 before 24.8.4; 24.8.0.0-alpha1, 24.8.0.0-beta1 — fixed in 24.8.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: The Document Foundation LibreOffice 24.8.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2024-12426
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00013.html

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