CVE-2020-12801CWE-311

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

published May 18, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01287 · 70.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-311 · Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
Published
2020-05-18T14:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 MAY 14:20Z
    Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save
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