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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the leaky-bugs dept.

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LastPass Fixes Bug That Leaks Credentials

The company has patched a vulnerability that could allow malicious sites unauthorized access to usernames and passwords.

LastPass has patched a bug that could potentially allow malicious websites to access a web user’s credentials from a previously visited site.

Tavis Ormandy, a vulnerability researcher from Google Project Zero, discovered the flaw in the LastPass password manager and published it on the project’s website on Aug. 29, rating it as “high.” He followed that up with a Twitter post warning web users about the bug on Sunday.

“LastPass could leak the last used credentials due to a cache not being updated,” Ormandy Tweeted. “This was because you can bypass the tab credential cache being populated by including the login form in an unexpected way!”

In other words, if a web user running LastPass entered credentials to one site and then surfed to another, the second site could have unauthorized access the username and password from the first site. If the second site is malicious, it could put the user at risk of cybercriminals.

Between the bug’s discovery and Ormandy’s Twitter announcement of the vulnerability, LastPass said it fixed the bug in a blog post dated Sept. 13. The company also diminished its severity.

[...] The bug isn’t the first that Ormandy discovered in the password management software. The Google researcher has been keeping LastPass’s security team on its toes in recent years.

In 2017, LastPass was prompted to patch three bugs that could allow for password theft thanks to Ormandy’s detective work. The year before that, Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the password manager’s Firefox add-on that allows attackers remotely compromise it, which LastPass also subsequently fixed.

Also at: BleepingComputer


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @01:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @01:20AM (#895947)

    Weigh the differences. Garbage, reused passwords that you can remember, likely garbage passwords in a local password manager and hours keeping them synced across devices, or possibly decent passwords synced across devices with the risk that they may leak but no evidence they ever actually have.

    Lastpass may have issues, but it's better than most people are doing with a password of "password".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @02:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @02:14AM (#895964)

    Hah, you insecure fools. My password is p4ssw0rd. They'll never guess that!