High
Security advisory
The verify endpoint in YubiKey Validation Server before 2.40 does not check the length of SQL queries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, aka SQL injection. NOTE: this issue is potentially relevant to persons outside Yubico who operate a self-hosted OTP validation service; the issue does NOT affect YubiCloud.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10184
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The verify endpoint in YubiKey Validation Server before 2.40 does not check the length of SQL queries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, aka SQL injection. NOTE: this issue is potentially relevant to persons outside Yubico who operate a self-hosted OTP validation service; the issue does NOT affect YubiCloud.
osv:CVE-2020-10184
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:34.814985741Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00014.html",
"https://github.com/Yubico/yubikey-val/releases/tag/yubikey-val-2.40",
"https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2020-01/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382597,
"published_at": "2020-03-05T23:15:13.277+00:00"
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