Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9848  

An issue has been found in LibreOffice before 6.2.5, where documents can specify that pre-installed scripts can be executed on various document events such as mouse-over, etc. LibreOffice is typically also bundled with LibreLogo, a programmable turtle vector graphics script, which can be manipulated into executing arbitrary python commands. By using the document event feature to trigger LibreLogo to execute python contained within a document a malicious document could be constructed which would execute arbitrary python commands silently without warning. In the fixed versions, LibreLogo cannot be called from a document event handler.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

An issue has been found in LibreOffice before 6.2.5, where documents can specify that pre-installed scripts can be executed on various document events such as mouse-over, etc. LibreOffice is typically also bundled with LibreLogo, a programmable turtle vector graphics script, which can be manipulated into executing arbitrary python commands. By using the document event feature to trigger LibreLogo to execute python contained within a document a malicious document could be constructed which would execute arbitrary python commands silently without warning.
In the fixed versions, LibreLogo cannot be called from a document event handler.

AVG-1010 libreoffice-still 6.1.6-2 High Vulnerable

AVG-1009 libreoffice-fresh 6.2.4-2 6.2.5-1 High Fixed

https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2019-9848
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/5d47b7b3f6a134037f1f3d8c018505244d7be484
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/3dd024a28a98a9d4b4efc3c7ec6acaa94d2b25fd