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GLSA-202501-04 : Yubico pam-u2f: Partial Authentication Bypass

high Nessus Plugin ID 214559

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202501-04 (Yubico pam-u2f: Partial Authentication Bypass)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Yubico pam-u2f. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Yubico pam-u2f users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-auth/pam_u2f-1.3.2

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202501-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948201

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214559

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202501-04.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23013

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Threat Score: 4.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pam_u2f, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23013