Privilege escalation in Uniqkey Password Manager
CVE-2019-10676
An issue was discovered in Uniqkey Password Manager 1.14. Upon entering new credentials to a site that is not registered within this product, a pop-up window will appear prompting the user if they want to save this new password. This pop-up window will persist on any page the user enters within the browser until a decision is made. The code of the pop-up window can be read by remote servers and contains the login credentials and URL in cleartext. A malicious server could easily grab this information from the pop-up. This is related to id="uniqkey-password-popup" and password-popup/popup.html.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
EPSS: 0.027 (84.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Uniqkey Password_manager — versions 1.14
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-10676?
- CVE-2019-10676 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uniqkey Password Manager, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-04-08.
- How severe is CVE-2019-10676?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.