CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6140
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• google authenticator (<= 0.91)
• google authenticator 0.86
• google authenticator 0.87
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129 bugs.debian.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/10 openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953505 Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/detail?r=c3414e9857ad64e52283f3266065ef3023fc69a8 code.google.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129 bugs.debian.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/10 openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953505 Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/detail?r=c3414e9857ad64e52283f3266065ef3023fc69a8 code.google.com