Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save (The Document Foundation LibreOffice)

CVE-2020-12801
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.29 % · percentile 70 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Document Fdn.
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-311 — Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
  • CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
The Document Foundation · LibreOfficeaffected 6-3 series < 6.3.6 ; affected 6-4 series < 6.4.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD