Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft file with traversal display_name
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ExploitDeliver to target Android user
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ExecutionVictim opens file in ViewTxt
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ImpactPath traversal reads/writes sandboxed files
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to open attacker-controlled content in the Lippu Docx Reader / Office Viewer app (versions up to 1.4.5 on Android), where the '_display_name' argument passed to the word.office.docxviewer.document.docx.reader.ViewTxt function is not sanitized, allowing '../' style path traversal. The key limiting factors are: mandatory passive user interaction (UI:P) - the attacker cannot trigger it without the user opening the malicious file; impact is confined to the Android app's sandbox (no scope change, SC/SI/SA:N); and it affects only this specific niche app at or below version 1.4.5. There is no evidence of a non-default configuration requirement. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity issue (CVSS 4.0 base 5.3) that is a low real-world priority. The only quantitative signal available is the vendor-supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N): remote and unauthenticated, but requiring passive user interaction (UI:P) and yielding only LOW impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, all confined to the vulnerable system (no scope change). No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no proof-of-concept were provided in the input, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The remaining drivers of real risk - a niche third-party Android document-viewer app ('Lippu Docx Reader') with a tiny deployment footprint, mandatory user interaction, and bounded impact within the app sandbox - all push realistic risk well below what a 5.3 might suggest for widely deployed software. No conflicting signals were detected, but note the data is single-sourced: all references trace back to VulDB/the FDU AF_CVEs issue tracker, with no independent vendor advisory or NVD-enriched CPE to corroborate affected-version boundaries. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious file (or content) whose '_display_name' argument contains path-traversal sequences and delivers it to a victim (e.g., via download, messaging, or a shared document). When the victim opens it in the Lippu Docx Reader app's ViewTxt function, the unsanitized display name is used in a file path, letting the app read or write files outside its intended directory within the sandbox. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data, and successful exploitation depends on the user actually opening the attacker-supplied file (UI:P). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 11, 2026
Path traversal in the Lippu Docx Reader / Office Viewer app up to version 1.4.5 on Android lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker influence file paths handled by the word.office.docxviewer.document.docx.reader.ViewTxt function by supplying a crafted '_display_name' value containing '../' sequences, potentially reading or altering files within the app sandbox. Exploitation is not autonomous: it requires the victim to open attacker-controlled document content (CVSS 4.0 UI:P, passive user interaction), and impact stays inside the application sandbox with no scope change, which is why our assessment rates this a medium-severity issue (CVSS 3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L, CVSS 4.0 base 5.3) and a low real-world priority. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no confirmed active exploitation; no vendor-released patch for version 1.4.5 was identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch for the affected Android app was identified at time of analysis, so the practical remediation is mitigative: treat the Lippu Docx Reader / Office Viewer app (version 1.4.5 and earlier) as untrusted when handling documents from external sources, and avoid opening .docx/.txt source files or attachments from unknown or untrusted parties with this app, since exploitation requires the victim to open attacker-controlled content (UI:P). Where the app is not business-critical, the cleanest compensating control is to uninstall or disable it and use a maintained alternative document viewer, accepting the loss of its specific Office-preview features; if the app must remain, reduce its blast radius by revoking broad/all-files storage access in Android app permissions and, on Android 11+, granting only per-file access through the system file picker so that path-traversal file operations are confined to the app's scoped storage - the trade-off is that some in-app browsing of local folders may stop working. Because the traversal impact is limited to the app sandbox (SC/SI/SA:N) and no public exploit code is known, aggressive network blocking is not warranted; instead, monitor the VulDB advisories at https://vuldb.com/vuln/416199 and https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-108544 for the release of a fixed version, and update immediately once a patched build above 1.4.5 is published. If the app is delivered to managed Android devices, enterprise mobility management policy can also block installation or force-uninstall it from non-allowlisted app catalogs until a fix exists, at the cost of removing the app from all managed users.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a classic CWE-22 improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in an Android document-viewing application. The Lippu Docx Reader / Office Viewer app exposes a code path, word.office.docxviewer.document.docx.reader.ViewTxt, that consumes a caller-influenced '_display_name' argument when opening Office-format documents; because that value is not normalized or constrained to a safe base directory, '../' style sequences in the argument can escape the intended directory and redirect file operations elsewhere in the app's private storage. Per the CVSS 4.0 vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X, the attack is network-reachable with no special preconditions and no privileges required, but it demands a passive user action (UI:P) before it can fire, and all three of the vulnerability's Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts are Low with Scope unchanged (SC/SI/SA:N) - meaning the traversal is contained by the Android application sandbox rather than allowing a system-wide or cross-app compromise. The accompanying tags ('Path Traversal', 'Google', 'Microsoft') are consistent with an Android/Google Play-distributed app that parses Microsoft Office document formats; the source data provides no CPE strings, so no broader product or version mapping beyond the stated Android app up to 1.4.5 can be confirmed. Our independent assessment's CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) aligns with the vendor-published vector and likewise concludes limited, sandbox-confined impact rather than remote code execution or privilege escalation.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Remote delivery of malicious content (AV:N) with no privileges (PR:N) but requiring the victim to open the file (UI:R); traversal is bounded to the app sandbox, yielding low C/I/A and unchanged scope.
Primary rating from Vendor (vuldb).
CVSS VectorVendor: vuldb
DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability was identified in Lippu Docx Reader Office Viewer App up to 1.4.5 on Android. This affects the function word.office.docxviewer.document.docx.reader.ViewTxt. Such manipulation of the argument _display_name leads to path traversal. The attack may be performed from remote.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
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