CVE-2020-12801 (GCVE-0-2020-12801)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-18 14:20 – Updated: 2024-11-18 17:29
VLAI
Title
Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save
Summary
If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted. On restart, LibreOffice offers to restore the document and prompts for the password to decrypt it. If the recovery is successful, and if the file format of the recovered document was not LibreOffice's default ODF file format, then affected versions of LibreOffice default that subsequent saves of the document are unencrypted. This may lead to a user accidentally saving a MSOffice file format document unencrypted while believing it to be encrypted. This issue affects: LibreOffice 6-3 series versions prior to 6.3.6; 6-4 series versions prior to 6.4.3.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-10 15:37 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
Assigner
Document Fdn. CNA
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 21 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Document Foundation LibreOffice Affected: 6-3 series , < 6.3.6 (custom)
Affected: 6-4 series , < 6.4.3 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-05-18 00:00
Credits
Thanks to Tomas Florian <tomas@armoreye.ca> for raising awareness of the issue
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