FKIE_CVE-2020-12801

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-05-18 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:52
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
References
security@documentfoundation.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@documentfoundation.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html
security@documentfoundation.orghttps://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2020-12801Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2020-12801Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libreoffice libreoffice *
libreoffice libreoffice *
opensuse leap 15.1
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