TI-2020-10178 Aliases CVE-2020-12801 GHSA-52g9-8355-62qv

Crash-recovered MSOffice encrypted documents defaulted to not to using encryption on next save

LOW 33CWE-311Published 2020-05-18 · Updated 2024-11-18

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · None · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-311.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01287 70th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed LibreOffice (The Document Foundation): 6.3.6, 6.4.3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
The Document Foundation	LibreOffice	6-3 series to before 6.3.6; 6-4 series to before 6.4.3	6.3.6, 6.4.3	Patch available	CNA

LibreOffice VendorThe Document Foundation Affected 6-3 series to before 6.3.6; 6-4 series to before 6.4.3 Fixed in 6.3.6, 6.4.3 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice::::::::	6.3.0 to before 6.3.6; 6.4.0 to before 6.4.3	Vulnerable	The Document Foundation
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:::::::*	15.1	Vulnerable	openSUSE

cpe:2.3:a:libreoffice:libreoffice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.3.0 to before 6.3.6; 6.4.0 to before 6.4.3 Vulnerable ·The Document Foundation
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 15.1 Vulnerable ·openSUSE

Remediation

Fix · CNA LibreOffice (The Document Foundation) Fixed in 6.3.6, 6.4.3

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 4 products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-12801
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-52g9-8355-62qv

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

[debian-lts-announce] 20231231 [SECURITY] [DLA 3703-1] libreoffice security update

TI-2019-07233 LibreLogo global-event script execution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-12068 Path traversal in [UNKNOWN] libreoffice CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-07474 An information disclosure vulnerability occurs when LibreOffice 6.0.3 and Apache… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2019-07230 Code injection in Document Foundation LibreOffice CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-05018 LibreOffice before 5.4.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2023-01118 Arbitrary file write in libreoffice CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

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Sources

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