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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-25635

An Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice allowed an attacker to self sign an ODF document, with a signature untrusted by the target, then modify it to change the signature algorithm to an invalid (or unknown to LibreOffice) algorithm and LibreOffice would incorrectly present such a signature with an unknown algorithm as a valid signature issued by a trusted person This issue affects LibreOffice: from 7.0 before 7.0.5, from 7.1 before 7.1.1.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:27 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-25635

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Mar 2025, 15:15 UTC

An Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice allowed an attacker to self sign an ODF document, with a signature untrusted by the target, then modify it to change the signature algorithm to an invalid (or unknown to LibreOffice) algorithm and LibreOffice would incorrectly present such a signature with an unknown algorithm as a valid signature issued by a trusted person This issue affects LibreOffice: from 7.0 before 7.0.5, from 7.1 before 7.1.1.

osv:CVE-2021-25635
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-25635",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.701391186Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437979,
  "published_at": "2025-03-21T15:15:35.707+00:00"
}