Improper Certificate Validation Affecting libreoffice package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.5.1)[7.1.0,7.1.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-9749302
  • published18 Apr 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2025
  • creditNDS

Introduced: 21 Mar 2025

CVE-2021-25635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 7.0.5.1, 7.1.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation that allows an attacker to self-sign an ODF document with an untrusted signature, and modify it to change the signature algorithm to an invalid or unknown algorithm, appearing to be a valid signature issued by a trusted person.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1