VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2012-5639
LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 5.84%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.84%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 5.84% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-668
- Affected
- libreoffice/libreoffice · debian/debian linux · apache/openoffice
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 5.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/14/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/7
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5639Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r253f92d0e6511d07a79774002e1d9db1d20b24bff27914a5adb14ccb%40%3Cissues.openoffice.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5639Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/14/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/28/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/03/7
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5639Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r253f92d0e6511d07a79774002e1d9db1d20b24bff27914a5adb14ccb%40%3Cissues.openoffice.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5639Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.