CVE-2020-12801 Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save
LibreOffice fails to maintain encryption for recovered Microsoft Office documents, potentially exposing sensitive data to unauthorized users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-12801?
CVE-2020-12801 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libreoffice Libreoffice, published on 18 May 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12801?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (6)
libreoffice SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-43.65.5 |
libreoffice SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-43.65.5 |
libreoffice SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-43.65.5 |
libreoffice SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-43.65.5 |
libreoffice SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP1 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-8.19.4 |
libreoffice openSUSE:Leap 15.1 | All versions | 6.4.4.2-lp151.3.15.1 |
Products include Libreoffice Libreoffice, Opensuse Leap.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12801?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2020-12801 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12801 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Libreoffice Libreoffice
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12801, GHSA-52g9-8355-62qv, MGASA-2020-0258, SUSE-SU-2020:1530-1, SUSE-SU-2020:1731-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12801 and 1 more.