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CVE-2012-2665

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2665 describes multiple heap-based buffer overflows in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice versions prior to 3.5.5, affecting their XML manifest encryption tag parsing. This vulnerability, stemming from malformed Open Document Text (.odt) files, could allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, leading to potential confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:openoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 3.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
11.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0701 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.5.5
View patch
check_pointpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.5.5
View patch
denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.4.1
View patch
libreofficepatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.4.1
View patch
nessuspatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.4.1
postgresqlpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.4.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libreoffice-1:3.4.5.2-16.1.el6_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openoffice.org-1:3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (7)

redhatCVE-2012-2665Important

libreoffice: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption handling code

Aug 1, 2012
asteriskllm-asterisk-ceedd74cbd2d3470

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption handling code

check_pointllm-check_point-aef46176faf1237b

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption handling code

denollm-deno-0824ccae62c5cc0a

Manifest-processing errors in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0

postgresqlllm-postgresql-7993f9c0357c0012

Manifest-processing errors in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0

libreofficellm-libreoffice-79af89c54c02c3c5

Manifest-processing errors in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0

nessusllm-nessus-480b17e026000c15

Manifest-processing errors in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1135.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50142
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/50146
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/50692
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/60799
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201209-05.xml
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2520
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-19.xml
Third Party Advisory
libreoffice.org / about-us/security/advisories/cve-2012-2665
Vendor Advisory
pre-cert.de / advisories/PRE-SA-2012-05.txt
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/54769
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1536-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1537-1
Third Party Advisory