CVE-2019-9852CWE-116

Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check

published August 15, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01752 · 77.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Published
2019-08-15T21:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 21:40Z
    Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check
    cvelistv5