Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data Affecting libreoffice package, versions <1:6.4.3-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBREOFFICE-569614
  • published19 May 2020
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-12801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-311  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libreoffice to version 1:6.4.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice package and not the libreoffice package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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