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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2019-9852
HistoryAug 15, 2019 - 10:15 p.m.

Directory traversal

2019-08-1522:15:00
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8.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.963 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.6%

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.