CVE-2021-25635 (GCVE-0-2021-25635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-21 14:52 – Updated: 2025-03-21 15:13
VLAI
Title
Content Manipulation with Certificate Validation Attack
Summary
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.
Severity
5.2 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-21 15:13 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Assigner
Document Fdn. CNA
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 21 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Document Foundation LibreOffice Affected: 7.0 , < 7.0.5 (7.0 series)
Affected: 7.1 , < 7.1.1 (7.1 series)
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Date Public
2021-10-11 14:00
Credits
NDS of Ruhr University Bochum
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