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high 8.8

CVE-2019-12828 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in Electronic Arts Origin before 10.5.39.

published 2019-06-14 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-4408

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.3%
EPSS 13.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ea origin 10.5.39

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-47019)

Exploit prediction

13.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-47019 EA Origin < 10.5.38 - Remote Code Execution remote, 2019-06-21
  • zeropwn.github.io https://zeropwn.github.io/2019-05-22-fun-with-uri-handlers/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9vCx9KsF3c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bleepingcomputer.com https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qt5-based-gui-apps-susceptible-to-remote-code-execution/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors

References

Sources

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