PT-2013-1912 · Google · Google Authenticator

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2013-04-24 · Updated 2013-05-07 · CVE-2012-6140

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

1.9

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Authenticator version prior to 1.0

Description The issue allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and discover a shared secret via standard filesystem operations due to the pam google authenticator.c in the PAM module requiring user-readable permissions for the secret file.

Recommendations For Google Authenticator version prior to 1.0, update to version 1.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6140

Affected Products

Google Authenticator

References · 8

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953505 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6140 · Security Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/10 · Note
• https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/detail?r=c3414e9857ad64e52283f3266065ef3023fc69a8 · Note