vulnerability

Apache OpenOffice: CVE-2016-6804: Windows Installer Execution of Arbitrary Code with Elevated Privileges

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 20, 2017
Added
Sep 12, 2025
Modified
Sep 12, 2025

Description

The Apache OpenOffice installer (versions prior to 4.1.3, including some branded as OpenOffice.org) for Windows contains a defective operation that allows execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This requires that the location in which the installer is run has been previously poisoned by a file that impersonates a dynamic-link library that the installer depends upon.

Solution

apache-openoffice-upgrade-latest
Title
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