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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4020-1 libreoffice security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5846-1 libreoffice security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-50847 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7228-1 LibreOffice vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title URL fetching can be used to exfiltrate arbitrary INI file values and environment variables
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Document Fdn.

Published:

Updated: 2025-01-07T14:38:34.076Z

Reserved: 2024-12-10T16:37:23.376Z

Link: CVE-2024-12426

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-01-07T14:38:20.520Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-01-07T13:15:07.210

Modified: 2025-01-07T13:15:07.210

Link: CVE-2024-12426

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-01-07T12:22:32Z

Links: CVE-2024-12426 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:01:20Z