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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13451

An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-13451

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Jan 2021, 22:15 UTC

An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.

osv:CVE-2020-13451
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:47.239700384Z",
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