CVE-2020-13451
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1...
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
- Record
CVE-2020-13451- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-459
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
- Record
CVE-2020-13451- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-5704 No score
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
- Record
EUVD-2020-5704- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-wcf9-3wr2-8wmf No score
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1...
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
- Record
GHSA-wcf9-3wr2-8wmf- Weakness
- CWE-459
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An incomplete-cleanup vulnerability in the Office rendering engine of Gotenberg through 6.2.1 allows an attacker to overwrite LibreOffice configuration files and execute arbitrary code via macros.
- Record
CVE-2020-13451- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-13451 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Thecodingmachine Gotenberg, published January 7, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.15%, the 88th percentile. No source names a fixed version.