CVE-2022-37401: Apache OpenOffice Weak Master Keys

["Carl B. Marcum" <cmarcum () apache org>]

Severity: important

Description:

Apache OpenOffice supports the storage of passwords for web connections in the user's configuration database. The 
stored passwords are encrypted with a single master key provided by the user. A flaw in OpenOffice existed where master 
key was poorly encoded resulting in weakening its entropy from 128 to 43 bits making the stored passwords vulnerable to 
a brute force attack if an attacker has access to the users stored config. This issue affects: Apache OpenOffice 
versions prior to 4.1.13.  Reference: CVE-2022-26307 - LibreOffice

Credit:

 OpenSource Security GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Office for Information Security

References:

https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2022-37401.html