CVE-2024-12425 | Path traversal leading to arbitrary .ttf file write

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Absolute Path Traversal. An attacker can write to arbitrary locations, albeit suffixed with ".ttf", by supplying a file in a format that supports embedded font files. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before < 24.8.4.

Published: 2025-01-07 Last update: 2025-12-08 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-12425 is rated Low Risk (31/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.41%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-12425

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-04 0.25% 0.41% +0.16%
2 2026-03-01 0.41% 0.25% -0.16%
3 2026-02-15 — 0.41% —

Full EPSS history (32 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-12425

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.4 4.0 LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
Attacker needs local access on the target system.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:L)
Low privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:P)
A user has to participate (for example click/open/approve).
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:L)
Limited integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.
Exploit maturity (threat) (E:X)
Not defined: no reliable threat intelligence; scoring assumes the worst case (equivalent to Attacked).
Confidentiality requirement (CR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Integrity requirement (IR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Availability requirement (AR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Modified attack vector (MAV:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Vector (AV).
Modified attack complexity (MAC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Complexity (AC).
Modified attack requirements (MAT:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Requirements (AT).
Modified privileges required (MPR:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Privileges Required (PR).
Modified user interaction (MUI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base User Interaction (UI).
Modified vulnerable system confidentiality impact (MVC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VC metric.
Modified vulnerable system integrity impact (MVI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VI metric.
Modified vulnerable system availability impact (MVA:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VA metric.
Modified subsequent system confidentiality impact (MSC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SC metric.
Modified subsequent system integrity impact (MSI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SI metric.
Modified subsequent system availability impact (MSA:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SA metric.
Safety (supplemental) (S:X)
Not evaluated.
Automatable (supplemental) (AU:X)
Not evaluated.
Recovery (supplemental) (R:X)
Not evaluated.
Value density (supplemental) (V:X)
Not evaluated.
Vulnerability response effort (supplemental) (RE:X)
Not evaluated.
Provider urgency (supplemental) (U:X)
Not evaluated.
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3.3 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.8 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-12425

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-12425

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-12425 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libreoffice), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-12425
gentoo high CVE-2024-12425: 1 GLSA(s) (202506-03), 2 atom(s) (app-office/libreoffice, app-office/libreoffice-bin); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2024-12425
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12425
suse medium CVE-2024-12425 severity moderate: SUSE including 146 source package names (libreoffice, libreoffice-base, …), 382 product×package rows across 3 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6): Known Not Affected 382. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12425/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-12425 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libreoffice), 5 status rows across 5 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, upstream): released 5. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-12425

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-12425

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
libreoffice libreoffice >= 24.8.0.1, < 24.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libreoffice libreoffice 24.8.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:24.8.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
libreoffice libreoffice 24.8.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:24.8.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 11.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-12425

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