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CVE-2019-9853 — LibreOffice documents can contain macros

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 categori

CVSS
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EPSS
0.29% (top 47.70%)
CWE
CWE-116
Published
2019-09-27T15:07:40.492Z
Last modified
2024-09-16T17:17:42.379Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Document FoundationLibreOffice6.2 series, 6.3 series

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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