CVE-2012-6140
google authenticator: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
pam_google_authenticator.c in the PAM module in Google Authenticator before 1.0 requires user-readable permissions for the secret file, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and discover a shared secret via standard filesystem operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0258.
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- google:authenticator
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953505
- https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/detail?r=c3414e9857ad64e52283f3266065ef3023fc69a8
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666129