CVE-2020-12801

CVE-2020-12801: Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save

Vendor The Document Foundation
Product LibreOffice
Weakness CWE-311 · Missing encryption
Published May 18, 2020
Last update November 18, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 18, 2020 CVE published
November 18, 2024 Record updated