# CVE-2019-14422: An issue was discovered in in TortoiseSVN 1.12.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2019-08-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in in TortoiseSVN 1.12.1. The Tsvncmd: URI handler allows a customised diff operation on Excel workbooks, which could be used to open remote workbooks without protection from macro security settings to execute arbitrary code. A tsvncmd:command:diff?path:[file1]?path2:[file2] URI will execute a customised diff on [file1] and [file2] based on the file extension. For xls files, it will execute the script diff-xls.js using wscript, which will open the two files for analysis without any macro security warning. An attacker can exploit this by putting a macro virus in a network drive, and force the victim to open the workbooks and execute the macro inside.

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## References

- https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2188
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/7
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47252

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