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CVE-2019-9853

Insufficient URL decoding flaw in categorizing macro location PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Document Foundation / LibreOfficeaffected 6.2 series before 6.2.7; affected 6.3 series before 6.3.1

CWE

CWE-116

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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