Document Foundation LibreOffice up to 7.5.2 Editor access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Document Foundation LibreOffice up to 7.5.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Committer. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-2255. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Document Foundation LibreOffice up to 7.5.2 (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Editor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of LibreOffice documents that used "floating frames" linked to external files, would load the contents of those frames without prompting the user for permission to do so. This was inconsistent with the treatment of other linked content in LibreOffice. This issue affects: The Document Foundation LibreOffice 7.4 versions prior to 7.4.7; 7.5 versions prior to 7.5.3.

The weakness was released 05/25/2023. The advisory is shared at libreoffice.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-2255 since 04/24/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 275412 (Apache OpenOffice < 4.1.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.5.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (275412). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.6

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 275412
Nessus Name: Apache OpenOffice < 4.1.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: LibreOffice 7.5.3

Timelineinfo

04/24/2023 🔍
05/25/2023 +31 days 🔍
05/25/2023 +0 days 🔍
11/15/2025 +904 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: libreoffice.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-2255 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-2255
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-229981

Entryinfo

Created: 05/25/2023 22:44
Updated: 11/15/2025 00:15
Changes: 05/25/2023 22:44 (41), 06/21/2023 13:07 (1), 11/15/2025 00:15 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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Discussion

 Anonymous User (+0)
3 years ago
Good afternoon,
Why didi You use cpe "document_foundation:libreoffice:" instead of official cpe "libreoffice:libreoffice" given by NVD Nist ?

In the past You used cpe "libreoffice:libreoffice" for CVE-2023-0950.

Best Regards,
TEAM CERT
 VulDB Community Team3 years ago
Thank you, we have just aligned the CPE.

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