CVE-2019-9853

Insufficient URL decoding flaw in categorizing macro location

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 27, 2019
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Mar 17, 2019

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Description

LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are blocked by default. A URL decoding flaw existed in how the urls to the macros within the document were processed and categorized, resulting in the possibility to construct a document where macro execution bypassed the security settings. The documents were correctly detected as containing macros, and prompted the user to their existence within the documents, but macros within the document were subsequently not controlled by the security settings allowing arbitrary macro execution This issue affects: LibreOffice 6.2 series versions prior to 6.2.7; LibreOffice 6.3 series versions prior to 6.3.1.

Scores

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Weaknesses

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LibreOfficeDocument Foundation
  • 6.2 series to before 6.2.7Affected
  • 6.3 series to before 6.3.1Affected

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