CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12813

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2019-06-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-06-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-319

Description

An issue was discovered in Digital Persona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader v24. The key and salt used for obfuscating the fingerprint image exhibit cleartext when the fingerprint scanner device transfers a fingerprint image to the driver. An attacker who sniffs an encrypted fingerprint image can easily decrypt that image using the key and salt.

Affected configurations

• crossmatch digital persona u.are.u 4500 firmware 24

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

References