CVE-2019-16992

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
The Keybase app 2.13.2 for iOS provides potentially insufficient notice that it is employing a user's private key to sign a certain cryptocurrency attestation (that an address at keybase.io can be used for Stellar payments to the user), which might be incompatible with a user's personal position on the semantics of an attestation.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-16992
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-09-30T00:15:10
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-08T12:43:13
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-347 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/347.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:keybase:keybase:2.13.2:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://sneak.berlin/20190929/keybase-backdoor/ Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/3583 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16992
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16992
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:15:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 03:33:53 2019-09-30T00:15Z 2019-09-30T00:15:10 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 03:33:53 2019-10-08T12:43:13 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 03:33:53 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated