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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12801

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.

Products
libreoffice
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1:6.4.3-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-12801
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:04 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12801

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 May 2020, 15:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12801

libreoffice

Fixed versions: 1:6.4.3-1

libreoffice

Fixed versions: 1:6.4.3-1

libreoffice

Fixed versions: 1:6.4.3-1

Complete source record
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    "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.",
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