Security Advisory SA41702 - RSA Authentication Client Secret Key Object Handling Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA41702

RSA Authentication Client Secret Key Object Handling Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA41702

Release Date

2010-10-07

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Remediation status

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Software:

RSA Authentication Client 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-3321 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in RSA Authentication Client, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error when storing secret key objects tagged as "sensitive" or "non-extractable", which can be exploited to extract seemingly secure objects from RSA SecurID 800 authenticators.

The security issue is reported in RSA Authentication Client 2.0.x versions for all platforms.

Solution
Fixed in RSA Authentication Client 3.5.3.
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Graham Steele, LSV, INRIA & CNRS & ENS-Cachan, and Matteo Bortolozzo, Matteo Centenaro, and Riccardo Focardi, Universita Ca'Foscari.

Original Advisory
ESA-2010-018:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-10/0032.html

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