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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-4395 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.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:32:55.107Z

Reserved: 2019-06-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-12813

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-06-13T23:29:00.223

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:23:37.890

Link: CVE-2019-12813

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.