CVE-2022-39843

HIGH

Lotus 1-2-3 < 1.0.0rc3 - Remote Code Execution via Crafted Worksheet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

123elf Lotus 1-2-3 before 1.0.0rc3 for Linux, and Lotus 1-2-3 R3 for UNIX and other platforms through 9.8.2, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted worksheet. This occurs because of a stack-based buffer overflow in the cell format processing routines, as demonstrated by a certain function call from process_fmt() that can be reached via a w3r_format element in a wk3 document.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/taviso/123elf/issues/103
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/taviso/123elf/releases/tag/v1.0.0rc3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0045
EPSS Percentile 35.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
lotus_1-2-3_project/lotus_1-2-3 1.0.0 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
Published Sep 05, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026