CVE-2021-25635
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-21 14:52
Modified
2025-03-21 15:13
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
Summary
Content Manipulation with Certificate Validation Attack
References
security@documentfoundation.orghttps://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2021-25635/
Impacted products
The Document FoundationLibreOffice
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