CVE-2019-0622 Auth bypass in Skype

What is CVE-2019-0622?

CVE-2019-0622 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Skype, published on 8 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Skype for Andriod fails to properly handle specific authentication requests, aka "Skype for Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Skype 8.35.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-0622?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Skype.

How do I fix CVE-2019-0622?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-0622 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2019-0622 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-0622 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Skype

• CVE-2017-6517 Other in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9948 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0594 Privilege escalation in Skype for Windows High 7.8
• CVE-2018-0595 Privilege escalation in The installer of Skype for Windows High 7.8
• CVE-2016-5720 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-65j8-j9v8-cm3q.