Information Exposure Affecting haemmerelectronics.sepppenner.windowshello package, versions [,1.0.4)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (12th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-HAEMMERELECTRONICSSEPPPENNERWINDOWSHELLO-565485
  • published 15 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2020
  • credit Angelelz

How to fix?

Upgrade HaemmerElectronics.SeppPenner.WindowsHello to version 1.0.4 or higher.

Overview

HaemmerElectronics.SeppPenner.WindowsHello is a library to work with Microsoft's Windows Hello in applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. If the library is used to encrypt text and write the output to a txt file, another executable could be able to decrypt the text using the static method NCryptDecrypt from this same library without the need to use Windows Hello Authentication again.