CVE-2008-3437: Openoffice Openoffice.org

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 2.1.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Affected products

• Openoffice Openoffice.org: version 1.1.5 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only

Published 2008-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.