CVE-2020-12801

Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save

Published May 18, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
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 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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3703-1 libreoffice security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5694-1 LibreOffice vulnerabilities
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Document Fdn.
Published
Updated
Nov 18, 2024, 5:29 PM
Reserved
May 12, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 18, 2020, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:52 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 28, 2020, 12:00 AM