CVE-2020-12801 — Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data in Document Foundation Libreoffice
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 59.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 18
Latest updateOct 20
Description
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…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4
Affected Packages4 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-52g9-8355-62qv: If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2020-12801: If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted↗2020-05-18
CVEList▶
Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save↗2020-05-18