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CVE-2019-9852 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00006.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00067.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00005.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PMEGUWMWORC3DOVEHVXLFT3A5RSCMLBH/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/28 Issue Tracking  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/17 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4102-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4501 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2019-9852 Patch  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output Document Foundation, The  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-9852
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2019
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
Document Foundation, The