Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links
to be loaded without prompt. Such links could also be used to transmit system information, such as environment variables or configuration settings.

In the affected versions of Apache OpenOffice, documents that used a certain URI scheme linking to external files would
load the contents of such files without prompting the user for
permission to do so. Such URI scheme allows to include system configuration data, that is not supposed to be transmitted externally.

This issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.15.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.16, which fixes the issue.





The LibreOffice suite reported this issue as CVE-2024-12426.
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History

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Apache
Apache openoffice
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:apache:openoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Apache
Apache openoffice
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}


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Description Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. Such links could also be used to transmit system information, such as environment variables or configuration settings. In the affected versions of Apache OpenOffice, documents that used a certain URI scheme linking to external files would load the contents of such files without prompting the user for permission to do so. Such URI scheme allows to include system configuration data, that is not supposed to be transmitted externally. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.15. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.16, which fixes the issue. The LibreOffice suite reported this issue as CVE-2024-12426.
Title Apache OpenOffice: URL fetching can be used to exfiltrate arbitrary INI file values and environment variables
Weaknesses CWE-201
CWE-862
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-13T16:32:12.202Z

Reserved: 2025-11-02T10:18:16.326Z

Link: CVE-2025-64407

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-13T16:31:24.847Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-11-12T10:15:44.457

Modified: 2025-11-13T17:15:50.523

Link: CVE-2025-64407

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-11-12T22:12:34Z