USN-7050-1: Devise-Two-Factor vulnerabilities

1 October 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Devise-Two-Factor.

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Benoit Côté-Jodoin and Michael Nipper discovered that Devise-Two-Factor
incorrectly handled one-time password validation. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to intercept and re-use a one-time password.
(CVE-2021-43177)

Garrett Rappaport discovered that Devise-Two-Factor incorrectly handled
generating multi-factor authentication codes. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to generate valid multi-factor authentication codes.
(CVE-2024-8796)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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