THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-2665
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-2665

Openoffice vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
7.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text (.odt) file with (1) a child tag within an incorrect parent tag, (2) duplicate tags, or (3) a Base64 ChecksumAttribute whose length is not evenly divisible by four.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Openoffice
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2012-08-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-2665

  • Confirm whether Apache Openoffice is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-2665.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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