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CVE-2026-90631

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Description

Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt, possibly transferring the contents of environment variables in the process. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.16. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.17, which fixes the issue.

Severity
Not scored
CVSS score
Not available
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-04 11:17:19.593000
Last modified
2026-11-04 11:17:19.593000
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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-90631",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-11-04T11:17:19.593",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-04T11:17:19.593",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Apache OpenOffice documents can contain links. A missing Authorization vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links \nto be loaded without prompt, possibly transferring the contents of environment variables in the process.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.16.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 4.1.17, which fixes the issue."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
          "product": "Apache OpenOffice",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "packageURL": "pkg:software-id/apache.org/openoffice",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "0",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "4.1.16",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "status": "affected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {},
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "type": "Primary",
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-939"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/j19rrk8jwrlg41tj6rfdcccj8cyyxhz9",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}