I created a minimal_repro.odt using LibreOffice Writer (attached here) that contains bold and italic text.

Here is a preview. I have added a red box around the characters to which I applied the styles.

I converted the file to markdown with this command

pandoc minimal_repro.odt -o output.md

And I got the following output

This will be **bolded** correctly

This will be **bolded **incorrectly

This will be *italicized* correctly

This will be *italicized *incorrectly

This is incorrect. According to the markdown spec, this is not valid emphasised text.

The correct output should be:

This will be **bolded** correctly

This will be **bolded** incorrectly

This will be *italicized* correctly

This will be *italicized* incorrectly

I used the pandoc/core:3.6.3 docker image

pandoc 3.6.3
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4

Sidenote: this could possibly be a bug with .docx files as well, however I am not able to test it.

This is probably related to 1709