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CVE-2018-20340
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
Yubico libu2f-host 1.1.6 contains unchecked buffers in devs.c, which could enable a malicious token to exploit a buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to attempt to execute malicious code using a crafted USB device masquerading as a security token on a computer where the affected library is currently in use. It is not possible to perform this attack with a genuine YubiKey.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 9.0
- Yubico Libu2F-Host: 1.1.6
References
- https://blog.inhq.net/posts/yubico-libu2f-host-vuln-part1/
- https://developers.yubico.com/libu2f-host/Release_Notes.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Feb/23
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4389
- https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2019-01/
- https://blog.inhq.net/posts/yubico-libu2f-host-vuln-part1/
- https://developers.yubico.com/libu2f-host/Release_Notes.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Feb/23
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4389
- https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2019-01/
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