Buffer overflow in Softmaker Office

CVE-2020-13545

An exploitable signed conversion vulnerability exists in the TextMaker document parsing functionality of SoftMaker Office 2021’s TextMaker application. 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 memory corruption. An attacker can entice the victim to open a document to trigger this vulnerability.

EPSS: 0.016 (74.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Softmaker Softmaker_office — versions 2021
  • N/a Softmaker — versions SoftMaker Software GmbH SoftMaker Office TextMaker 2021 (revision 1014)

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-13545?
CVE-2020-13545 is a high-severity vulnerability in Softmaker Office, classified under CWE-196. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2021-01-06.
How severe is CVE-2020-13545?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.