CVE-2019-12209

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Yubico pam-u2f 1.0.7 attempts parsing of the configured authfile (default $HOME/.config/Yubico/u2f_keys) as root (unless openasuser was enabled), and does not properly verify that the path lacks symlinks pointing to other files on the system owned by root. If the debug option is enabled in the PAM configuration, part of the file contents of a symlink target will be logged, possibly revealing sensitive information.

Affected products

Yubico pam-u2f: 1.0.7

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/05/1
https://developers.yubico.com/pam-u2f/Release_Notes.html
https://github.com/Yubico/pam-u2f/commit/7db3386fcdb454e33a3ea30dcfb8e8960d4c3aa3
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5FOR4ADC356JPCHAJI5UXZORLC3VNBPS/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZCGU6UQLI3ZTW3UYCTMQW7VDL5M4LCWR/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/05/1
https://developers.yubico.com/pam-u2f/Release_Notes.html
https://github.com/Yubico/pam-u2f/commit/7db3386fcdb454e33a3ea30dcfb8e8960d4c3aa3

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