Medium

B2 Command Line Tool is the official command line tool for the backblaze cloud storage service. Linux and Mac releases of the B2 command-line tool version 3.2.0 and below contain a key disclosure vuln

  • Disclosed: 23.02.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:19

B2 Command Line Tool is the official command line tool for the backblaze cloud storage service. Linux and Mac releases of the B2 command-line tool version 3.2.0 and below contain a key disclosure vulnerability that, in certain conditions, can be exploited by local attackers through a time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition. The command line tool saves API keys (and bucket name-to-id mapping) in a local database file ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/b2/account_info, ~/.b2_account_info or a user-defined path) when b2 authorize-account is first run. This happens regardless of whether a valid key is provided or not. When first created, the file is world readable and is (typically a few milliseconds) later altered to be private to the user. If the directory is readable by a local attacker and the user did not yet run b2 authorize-account then during the brief period between file creation and permission modification, a local attacker can race to open the file and maintain a handle to it. This allows the local attacker to read the contents after the file after the sensitive information has been saved to it. Users that have not yet run b2 authorize-account should upgrade to B2 Command-Line Tool v3.2.1 before running it. Users that have run b2 authorize-account are safe if at the time of the file creation no other local users had read access to the local configuration file. Users that have run b2 authorize-account where the designated path could be opened by another local user should upgrade to B2 Command-Line Tool v3.2.1 and remove the database and regenerate all application keys. Note that b2 clear-account does not remove the database file and it should not be used to ensure that all open handles to the file are invalidated. If B2 Command-Line Tool cannot be upgraded to v3.2.1 due to a dependency conflict, a binary release can be used instead. Alternatively a new version could be installed within a virtualenv, or the permissions can be changed to prevent local users from opening the database file.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) b2 < 3.2.1 3.2.1

References

CVSS score 4.7/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-367
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
b2
Disclosed
23.02.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 12:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-8wr4-2wm6-w3pr - CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2022-32 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: b2

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