CVE-2020-26236CWE-287

Verification Code Hijacking in ScratchVerifier

High · published November 20, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In ScratchVerifier before commit a603769, an attacker can hijack the verification process to log into someone else's account on any site that uses ScratchVerifier for logins. A possible exploitation would follow these steps: 1. User starts login process. 2. Attacker attempts login for user, and is given the same verification code. 3. User comments code as part of their normal login. 4. Before user can, attacker completes the login process now that the code is commented. 5. User gets a failed login and attacker now has control of the account. Since commit a603769 starting a login twice will generate different verification codes, causing both user and attacker login to fail. For clients that rely on a clone of ScratchVerifier not hosted by the developers, their users may attempt to finish the login process as soon as possible after commenting the code. There is no reliable way for the attacker to know before the user can finish the process that the user has commented the code, so this vulnerability only really affects those who comment the code and then take several seconds before finishing the login.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00948 · 60.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
Published
2020-11-20T17:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 NOV 17:55Z
    Verification Code Hijacking in ScratchVerifier
    cvelistv5