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CVE-2019-9852

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9852 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting LibreOffice versions prior to 6.2.6, as well as various Linux distributions. It allows for arbitrary script execution due to a URL encoding bypass in the macro execution protection, enabling attackers to execute scripts from unintended locations on a user's system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high potential for impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious document) for exploitation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
19.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0192 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 6.2.6/6.3.0
View patch
check_pointpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 6.2.6/6.3.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libreoffice-1:5.3.6.1-24.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libreoffice-1:6.0.6.1-20.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

redhatCVE-2019-9852Moderate

libreoffice: Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check

Aug 15, 2019
asteriskllm-asterisk-aac049f802339938

Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check

check_pointllm-check_point-b4b1fdae412b0daf

Insufficient URL encoding flaw in allowed script location check

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00067.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PMEGUWMWORC3DOVEHVXLFT3A5RSCMLBH
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Aug/28
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/17
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4102-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4501
Third Party Advisory
libreoffice.org / about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2019-9852
PatchVendor Advisory