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Dark_Knight666
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2 months ago

CVE-2018-16858 (LibreOffice Remote Code Execution)

Hi there!

I'm a little stumped on what 9 is prompting me to do? 

So it's asking me to open and modify 'bankdetails.odt' and to launch the file as 'cmd.exe' instead of .docx file, but when I right click on the 'bankdetails.odt' I don't really know what to select from the list to open as an extension as a .exe?

Hope i've made sense? 

 

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  • MadelineDadamio's avatar
    MadelineDadamio
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    20 days ago

    Hi Dark_Knight666​ Thanks for reaching out. I completely get the confusion here. Task 9 is not asking you to convert bankdetails.odt into an .exe. Instead, you will want to open the file in a text editor like Notepad++ so you can view the content inside.

    Right-click the .odt file, choose a text-based editor, and you will be able to make the required modification from there. Let me know if that is helpful. 

    • Dark_Knight666's avatar
      Dark_Knight666
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      18 days ago

      MadelineDadamio​ Hi there, so I have opened the .ODT file using Notepad++ but unsure of where the name of the Python script could be? I have followed the path which leads to Python but wasn't able to answer the question correctly?