CVE-2014-1423

Publication date 7 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

signond before 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1, as used in Ubuntu Touch, did not properly restrict applications from querying oath tokens due to incorrect checks and the missing installation of the signon-apparmor-extension. An attacker could use this create a malicious click app that collects oauth tokens for other applications, exposing sensitive information.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
signon 19.04 disco
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
17.10 artful
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
17.04 zesty
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
15.10 wily
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

This is fixed in vivid. Setting to low priority for trusty and utopic since it is specific to click apps.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
signon

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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