CVE-2023-1183 Arbitrary file write

What is CVE-2023-1183?

CVE-2023-1183 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 10 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A flaw was found in the Libreoffice package. An attacker can craft an odb containing a "database/script" file with a SCRIPT command where the contents of the file could be written to a new file whose location was determined by the attacker.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1183?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libreoffice Libreoffice, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2023-1183?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-1183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1183 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLSA-2025-1747253770, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1183, DLA-3467-1, DLA-3468-1, DSA-5436-1, DSA-5437-1 and 13 more.