CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15000
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
A PIN management problem was discovered on Yubico YubiKey 5 devices 5.2.0 to 5.2.6. OpenPGP has three passwords: Admin PIN, Reset Code, and User PIN. The Reset Code is used to reset the User PIN, but it is disabled by default. A flaw in the implementation of OpenPGP sets the Reset Code to a known value upon initialization. If the retry counter for the Reset Code is set to non-zero without changing the Reset Code, this known value can be used to reset the User PIN. To set the retry counters, the Admin PIN is required.
Affected configurations
• yubico yubikey 5 nfc firmware (>= 5.2.0 <= 5.2.6)
References
- https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2020-05/ Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2020-05/ Mitigation, Vendor Advisory