Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in OpenOffice - CVE-2022-37400
Published: August 15, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU66496
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37400
CWE-ID: CWE-338
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
OpenOffice
OpenOffice
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the required initialization vector for encryption is always the same for stored passwords. A local user can decrypt passwords for web connections from the user's configuration
database.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-37400
Install updates from vendor's website.