Insecure Encryption Affecting openoffice package, versions [,4.1.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENOFFICE-2980285
  • published14 Aug 2022
  • disclosed14 Aug 2022
  • creditSelma Jabour

Introduced: 14 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-37400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openoffice to version 4.1.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption. Apache OpenOffice supports the storage of passwords for web connections in the user's configuration database. The stored passwords are encrypted with a single master key provided by the user. A flaw in OpenOffice existed where the required initialization vector for encryption was always the same which weakens the security of the encryption making them vulnerable if an attacker has access to the user's configuration data.

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