Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libreoffice package, versions [6.3.0,6.3.6)[6.4.0,6.4.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2370810
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-12801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 6.3.6, 6.4.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. 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.

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