Directory Traversal Affecting libreoffice-langpack-ts package, versions <1:6.0.6.1-20.0.1.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-LIBREOFFICELANGPACKTS-2553241
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Aug 2019

Introduced: 15 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-9852  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 libreoffice-langpack-ts to version 1:6.0.6.1-20.0.1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-1598.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-langpack-ts package and not the libreoffice-langpack-ts package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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