CVE-2018-6871
LibreOffice before 5.4.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via =WEBSERVICE calls in a document, which…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 22.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
LibreOffice before 5.4.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via =WEBSERVICE calls in a document, which use the COM.MICROSOFT.WEBSERVICE function.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- LibreOffice < 6.0.1 - '=WEBSERVICE' Remote Arbitrary File Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44022remote, linuxpublished 10 Feb 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44022 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.8% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 44022 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- USN-3579-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/jollheef/libreoffice-remote-arbitrary-file-disclosure (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0517 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-5-4-5&id=a916fc0c0e0e8b10cb4158fa0fa173fe205d434a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0418 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-1055/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4111 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-18617 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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