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CVE-2014-1423: Online Accounts Signon daemon gives out all oauth tokens to any app

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

signond before 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1, as used in Ubuntu Touch, did not properly restrict applications from querying oath tokens due to incorrect checks and the missing installation of the signon-apparmor-extension. An attacker could use this create a malicious click app that collects oauth tokens for other applications, exposing sensitive information.

Affected products

• Signond Project Signond: before 8.57\+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1 — fixed in 8.57\+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
• UBports Ubuntu Touch: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Signond Project Signond 8.57\+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/644
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/645
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/signon/+bug/1392380
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/644
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/645
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/signon/+bug/1392380

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