CVE-2019-12813

An issue was discovered in Digital Persona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader v24. The key and salt used for obfuscating the fingerprint image exhibit cleartext when the fingerprint scanner device transfers a fingerprint image to the driver. An attacker who sniffs an encrypted fingerprint image can easily decrypt that image using the key and salt.

CVSS v3.0

5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 64th percentile

Published

2019-06-13

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grirez2xeas
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXJDyEOatM

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-12801
• CVE-2019-12814
• CVE-2019-12799
• CVE-2019-12815
• CVE-2019-12789
• CVE-2019-12828