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CVE-2008-3437

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-94 Code Injection
Publication date:
01/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 2.1.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openoffice:openoffice.org:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openoffice:openoffice.org:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openoffice:openoffice.org:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openoffice:openoffice.org:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:openoffice:openoffice.org:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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