Riskcovery

CVE-2020-12801

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

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 18, 2020
Updated
Nov 18, 2024
Reserved
May 12, 2020

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LibreOfficeThe Document Foundation
  • 6-3 series to before 6.3.6Affected
  • 6-4 series to before 6.4.3Affected

References

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