CVE-2020-12801

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-12801
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-18 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-31 14:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIf 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-312

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libreoffice Libreoffice All All All All
Application Libreoffice Libreoffice All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-12801 | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft MISC www.libreoffice.org Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0786-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[debian-lts-announce] 20231231 [SECURITY] [DLA 3703-1] libreoffice security update lists.debian.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks to Tomas Florian <[email protected]> for raising awareness of the issue

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199000 Ubuntu Security Notification for LibreOffice Vulnerabilities (USN-5694-1)
  • 502561 Alpine Linux Security Update for libreoffice
  • 503696 Alpine Linux Security Update for libreoffice
  • 6000415 Debian Security Update for libreoffice (DLA 3703-1)
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