The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4242 advisory.

    LibreOffice is an open source, community-developed office productivity suite. It includes key desktop     applications, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, a formula editor, and a     drawing program. LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice and provides a similar but enhanced and extended office     suite.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libreoffice: create a document which without prompt will execute scripts built-into LibreOffice on     clicking a graphic (CVE-2024-3044)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : libreoffice (RHSA-2024:4242)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201273

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Nov 13, 2024, 9:36 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 6.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Plugin Feed: 202411130936
Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.1 Jul 3, 2024, 2:36 AM New Plugin Feed: 202407030236