Medium severity · published May 18, 2020
CVE-2020-12801
If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted
5.3
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
LI
Libreoffice · Libreoffice
6.3.0 before 6.3.6; 6.4.0 before 6.4.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12801
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12801
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00011.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html
Vendor Advisory
https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2020-12801
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