CVE-2023-6185Improper input validation enabling arbitrary Gstreamer pipeline injection
- 8.3HighCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in GStreamer integration of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to execute arbitrary GStreamer plugins. In affected versions the filename of the embedded video is not sufficiently escaped when passed to GStreamer enabling an attacker to run arbitrary gstreamer plugins depending on what plugins are installed on the target system.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Document Fdn.
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document Fdn.CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Affected products
The Document Foundation · LibreOffice
- affected 7.5 – < 7.5.9
- affected 7.6 – < 7.6.3
References
References4
- https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2023-6185 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5574 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QB7UB6CTWQUDOE657OVVRSDYUY3IPBJG/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html (opens in a new tab)x_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-2023-58434 (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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