Vulnerability in Libreoffice
CVE-2020-12801
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (68.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Libreoffice
- The Document Foundation Libreoffice — versions 6-3 series, 6-4 series
- openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2020-12801 (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00011.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00026.html (mailing-list)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-12801?
- CVE-2020-12801 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libreoffice, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-05-18.
- How severe is CVE-2020-12801?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.