CVE-2019-9854

HIGH

LibreOffice 6.2.0-6.2.6 - Path Traversal via URL Encoding Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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-2019-9852, to avoid a directory traversal attack where scripts in arbitrary locations on the file system could be executed by employing a URL encoding attack to defeat the path verification step. However this protection could be bypassed by taking advantage of a flaw in how LibreOffice assembled the final script URL location directly from components of the passed in path as opposed to solely from the sanitized output of the path verification step. This issue affects: Document Foundation LibreOffice 6.2 versions prior to 6.2.7; 6.3 versions prior to 6.3.1.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4519
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/17
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4138-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00067.html
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00055.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0067
EPSS Percentile 71.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (12)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 29
libreoffice/libreoffice 6.2.0 - 6.2.7
opensuse/leap 15.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
... and 2 more
Published Sep 06, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026