CVE-2011-2344

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Android Picasa in Android 3.0 and 2.x through 2.3.4 uses a cleartext HTTP session when transmitting the authToken obtained from ClientLogin, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges and access private pictures and web albums by sniffing the token from connections with picasaweb.google.com.

Affected products

Android: 2.1, 2.2, 2.2-rev1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3-rev1 (+3)

References

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7a763db1c15bb6436be85a3f23382e4171970b6e
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9a418de454e5ce078c98f41b5c18e3bb9175bd20
http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/mi/staff/koenings/catching-authtokens.html
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7a763db1c15bb6436be85a3f23382e4171970b6e
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9a418de454e5ce078c98f41b5c18e3bb9175bd20
http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/mi/staff/koenings/catching-authtokens.html

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