CVE-2019-9852

CVE-2019-9852: Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check

Vendor Document Foundation
Product LibreOffice
Weakness CWE-116
Published August 15, 2019
Last update September 17, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice install. Protection was added, to address CVE-2018-16858, to avoid a directory traversal attack where scripts in arbitrary locations on the file system could be executed. However this new protection could be bypassed by a URL encoding attack. In the fixed versions, the parsed url describing the script location is correctly encoded before further processing. This issue affects: Document Foundation LibreOffice versions prior to 6.2.6.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 15, 2019 CVE published
September 17, 2024 Record updated

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