CVE-2015-1774

critical

Description

The HWP filter in LibreOffice before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HWP document, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1094

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-05

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2578-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032206

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032205

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74338

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3236

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1458.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00015.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157550.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156582.html

https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2015-1774/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-1903

http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-04-28

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.07593