CVE-2016-6803

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.10% (82nd) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An installer defect known as an "unquoted Windows search path vulnerability" affected the Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.3 installers for Windows. The PC must have previously been infected by a Trojan Horse application (or user) running with administrative privilege. Any installer with the unquoted search path vulnerability becomes a delayed trigger for the exploit.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-426USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice≤ Older versions, including some using the previous OpenOffice.org brand, are also affected.enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice≤ 4.0.0 to 4.1.2enisa_euvdEU
apache openoffice≤ 4.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:openoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-11-13modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94418 cnnvd
https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-6803.html cnnvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94418 enisa_euvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037015 enisa_euvd
https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-6803.html enisa_euvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94418Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037015Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-6803.htmlIssue TrackingVendor Advisorynvd

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