Vulnerability · Published Feb 10, 2021 · Assigned by talos
CVE-2020-13546
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity integer overflow in SoftMaker. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
In SoftMaker Software GmbH SoftMaker Office TextMaker 2021 (revision 1014), a specially crafted document can cause the document parser to miscalculate a length used to allocate a buffer, later upon usage of this buffer the application will write outside its bounds resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker can entice the victim to open a document to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-190 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1163 x_refsource_MISC