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CVE-2020-12801 — If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto

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

CVSS
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EPSS
0.18% (top 60.10%)
CWE
CWE-311
Published
2020-05-18T14:20:08.325Z
Last modified
2024-11-18T17:29:42.515Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
The Document FoundationLibreOffice6-3 series, 6-4 series

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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