#VU60762 Improper certificate validation in LibreOffice - CVE-2021-25636
Published: February 22, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU60762
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-25636
CWE-ID: CWE-295
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
LibreOffice
LibreOffice
Software vendor:
LibreOffice
LibreOffice
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate validation when processing digital signatures of ODF documents. A remote attacker can modify the documentsignatures.xml or macrosignatures.xml stream within the document to contain both "X509Data" and "KeyValue" children of the "KeyInfo" tag[1], which when opened caused LibreOffice to verify using the "KeyValue" but to report verification with the unrelated "X509Data" value.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.