CVE-2024-5261

CRITICAL

LibreOffice < 24.2.4 - Improper Certificate Validation in LibreOfficeKit Mode

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice "LibreOfficeKit" mode disables TLS certification verification LibreOfficeKit can be used for accessing LibreOffice functionality through C/C++. Typically this is used by third party components to reuse LibreOffice as a library to convert, view or otherwise interact with documents. LibreOffice internally makes use of "curl" to fetch remote resources such as images hosted on webservers. In affected versions of LibreOffice, when used in LibreOfficeKit mode only, then curl's TLS certification verification was disabled (CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of false) In the fixed versions curl operates in LibreOfficeKit mode the same as in standard mode with CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of true. This issue affects LibreOffice before version 24.2.4.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 34.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (1)
libreoffice/libreoffice < 24.2.4
Published Jun 25, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026