CVE-2021-41832 (GCVE-0-2021-41832)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-11 08:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:22
VLAI
Title
Content Manipulation with Certificate Validation Attack
Summary
It is possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear to be signed by a trusted source. All versions of Apache OpenOffice up to 4.1.10 are affected. Users are advised to update to version 4.1.11. See CVE-2021-25635 for the LibreOffice advisory.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1088 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice Affected: Apache OpenOffice , ≤ 4.1.10 (custom)
Affected: OpenOffice.org , ≤ 3.4 (custom)
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Credits
Apache OpenOffice would like to thank Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, and Jorg Schwenk of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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