CVE-2022-3140

Publication date 11 October 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

LibreOffice supports Office URI Schemes to enable browser integration of LibreOffice with MS SharePoint server. An additional scheme 'vnd.libreoffice.command' specific to LibreOffice was added. In the affected versions of LibreOffice links using that scheme could be constructed to call internal macros with arbitrary arguments. Which when clicked on, or activated by document events, could result in arbitrary script execution without warning. This issue affects: The Document Foundation LibreOffice 7.4 versions prior to 7.4.1; 7.3 versions prior to 7.3.6.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libreoffice	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.6
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.12
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

This is fixed in (1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) in jammy, but is not yet in the security pocket. Fourth commit is in 7.3.7, appears related and used by Debian, possibly not needed to fix the CVE.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libreoffice	Upstream: b3edf85 Upstream: e36986a Upstream: 2f7e7db Upstream: 7c29958 Upstream: 6503607 Upstream: 71abb62 Upstream: 8ab71da Upstream: 5c43380 Upstream: d031278

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5694-1
LibreOffice vulnerabilities
20 October 2022