Low
Security advisory
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Absolute Path Traversal. An attacker can write to arbitrary locations, albeit suffixed with ".ttf", by supplying a file in a format that supports embedded font files. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before < 24.8.4.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-12425
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Absolute Path Traversal. An attacker can write to arbitrary locations, albeit suffixed with ".ttf", by supplying a file in a format that supports embedded font files. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before < 24.8.4.
osv:CVE-2024-12425
Complete source record
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