Information disclosure in Google Authenticator

CVE-2012-6140

pam_google_authenticator.c in the PAM module in Google Authenticator before 1.0 requires user-readable permissions for the secret file, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and discover a shared secret via standard filesystem operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0258.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.002 (13.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Google Authenticator — versions 0.86, 0.87
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)