Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting libreoffice package, versions [,7.2.7)[7.3.0,7.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2960171
  • published26 Jul 2022
  • disclosed26 Jul 2022
  • creditOpenSource Security GmbH

Introduced: 26 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-26307  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 7.2.7, 7.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength by retrieving a user's config database, which contains a weakly encrypted master password. An attacker can reveal the password by brute force methods since the entropy in use is 43 bits rather than the intended 128.

CVSS Scores

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