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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:33:12 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, neoice@...ice.net,
        Alexander Wirt <formorer@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2012-XXYY Request -- google-authenticator:
 Information disclosure due insecure requirement on the secrets file

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On 04/18/2013 04:45 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, Alexander, vendors,
> 
> as noted in [1]:
> 
> An information disclosure file was found in the way
> google-authenticator, a pluggable authentication module (PAM) which
> allows login using one-time passcodes conforming to the open
> standards developed by the Initiative for Open Authentication
> (OATH), performed management of its secret / state file in certain
> configurations. Due the lack of 'user=' option the secret file was
> previously required to be user-readable, allowing (in certain
> cases) a local attacker to obtain the (pre)shared
> client-to-authentication-server secret, possibly leading to
> victim's account impersonation.
> 
> A different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0258.
> 
> References: [1]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129 [2]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129#10 [3]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129#20 [4]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953505
> 
> Relevant upstream patch: [5]
> https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/detail?r=c3414e9857ad64e52283f3266065ef3023fc69a8
>
>  @Alexander - since I am not sure I have described the attack
> vector above properly, please correct me if / where required.
> 
> @Kurt * the CVE-2012- identifier should be allocated to this issue,
> since the security implications of this problem are for the first
> time mentioned here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129#10
> (2012-09-22),
> 
> * from what I have looked, there doesn't seem to be: 
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=authenticator
> 
> a CVE identifier allocated to this issue yet (as noted above 
> CVE-2013-0258 from that list is different issue).
> 
> => could you allocate one?

Please use CVE-2012-6140 for this new issue.

> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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