# CVE-2020-13958: A vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice scripting events allows an attacker to construct documents containing hyperlinks pointing to an executa

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-11-17 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a Apache OpenOffice: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 to 4.1.7

## Description

A vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice scripting events allows an attacker to construct documents containing hyperlinks pointing to an executable on the target users file system. These hyperlinks can be triggered unconditionally. In fixed versions no internal protocol may be called from the document event handler and other hyperlinks require a control-click.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Apache OpenOffice, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6b2f48cf6c4aad4ebd13f90033162276b0ccae63bea2d3d89cdaf355%40%3Cannounce.openoffice.apache.org%3E
- https://github.com/Grey-Junior/CVE-2020-13958

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