CVE-2020-12801

Publication date 18 May 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libreoffice	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.12
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support, was needed
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libreoffice	Upstream: ae46145 Upstream: 9e57fde Upstream: c16d9d8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5694-1
LibreOffice vulnerabilities
20 October 2022