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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 c...
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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. 

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    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?