CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6803
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
An installer defect known as an "unquoted Windows search path vulnerability" affected the Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.3 installers for Windows. The PC must have previously been infected by a Trojan Horse application (or user) running with administrative privilege. Any installer with the unquoted search path vulnerability becomes a delayed trigger for the exploit.
Affected configurations
• apache openoffice (<= 4.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94418 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037015 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-6803.html Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94418 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037015 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-6803.html Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory