CVE-2019-12828

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Electronic Arts Origin before 10.5.39. Due to improper sanitization of the origin:// and origin2:// URI schemes, it is possible to inject additional arguments into the Origin process and ultimately leverage code execution by loading a backdoored Qt plugin remotely via the platformpluginpath argument supplied with a Windows network share.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-19

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153385/EA-Origin-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qt5-based-gui-apps-susceptible-to-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9vCx9KsF3cExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-19-574/
https://zeropwn.github.io/2019-05-22-fun-with-uri-handlers/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153385/EA-Origin-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qt5-based-gui-apps-susceptible-to-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9vCx9KsF3cExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-19-574/
https://zeropwn.github.io/2019-05-22-fun-with-uri-handlers/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 14, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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