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high 7.8

CVE-2017-12608 json

A vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice Writer DOC file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in ImportOldFormatStyles, allows attackers to cr…

published 2017-11-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4169

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice Writer DOC file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in ImportOldFormatStyles, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • apache openoffice 4.1.4
  • libreoffice Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12608

  • libreoffice Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12608

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12608 updated cvss 7.0

libreoffice: Out-of-bounds write in the WW8RStyle::ImportOldFormatStyles functionality

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 autocorr-af, autocorr-bg, autocorr-ca, autocorr-cs, autocorr-da, autocorr-de, +60 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 autocorr-af, autocorr-bg, autocorr-ca, autocorr-cs, autocorr-da, autocorr-de, +105 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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