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Opening a crafted Calc spreadsheet can make LibreOffice fetch and execute attacker-hosted Java code.

Affects

LibreOffice Calc, the spreadsheet application and headless document converter available across desktop and server platforms.

A saved external-data mapping can select the SQL provider and retrieve a remote JDBC driver during document loading; the driver’s code runs as the LibreOffice process.

Detail and 2 sources

The route crosses the document-to-code boundary for desktops and automated document pipelines, but it requires the file to be opened with LibreOffice Java support available.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026