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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11535

An issue was discovered in ONLYOFFICE Document Server 5.5.0. An attacker can craft a malicious .docx file, and exploit XML injection to enter an attacker-controlled parameter into the x2t binary, to rewrite this binary and/or libxcb.so.1, and execute code on a victim's server.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:48 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-11535

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Apr 2020, 15:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in ONLYOFFICE Document Server 5.5.0. An attacker can craft a malicious .docx file, and exploit XML injection to enter an attacker-controlled parameter into the x2t binary, to rewrite this binary and/or libxcb.so.1, and execute code on a victim's server.

osv:CVE-2020-11535
Complete source record
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in ONLYOFFICE Document Server 5.5.0. An attacker can craft a malicious .docx file, and exploit XML injection to enter an attacker-controlled parameter into the x2t binary, to rewrite this binary and/or libxcb.so.1, and execute code on a victim's server.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:45.871583263Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382891,
  "published_at": "2020-04-15T15:15:19.683+00:00"
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