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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] CVE-2023-1183: Apache OpenOffice: Arbitrary file write in Apache OpenOffice Base
From:       Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm () apache ! org>
Date:       2023-12-28 20:55:38
Message-ID: ZY3gyvwqE8oxamz3 () nuvolo
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Severity: Moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache OpenOffice through 4.1.15

Description:

An attacker can craft an OBD 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.

There are no known exploits of this vulnerability.
A proof-of-concept demonstration exists.

Thanks to the reporter for discovering this issue.

Credit:

The Apache OpenOffice Security Team would like to thank Gregor Kopf of Secfault Security GmbH \
(Germany) for discovering and reporting this attack vector and Fred Toussi for kindly providing \
a solution to this issue within HSQLDB.

References:
https://openoffice.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1183
-- 
Arrigo


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