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CVE-2017-7882

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7882 is a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting LibreOffice versions prior to March 14, 2017, specifically within the HWPFile::TagsRead function. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0244 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
check_pointpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: development
View patch
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

redhatCVE-2017-7882Moderate

libreoffice: Heap-buffer-overflow in HWPFile::TagsRead

Apr 14, 2017
asteriskllm-asterisk-5f853c0cca1de89e

Heap-buffer-overflow in HWP filter

check_pointllm-check_point-0b16ae0bab73550d

Heap-buffer-overflow in HWP filter

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / LibreOffice/core/commit/65dcd1d8195069c8c8acb3a188b8e5616c51029c
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
libreoffice.org / about-us/security/advisories/cve-2017-7882
securityfocus.com / bid/97684
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry