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Weird behaviour with Yubikey Neo

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Description

When my Yubikey Neo is plugged, if I press the button on it weird things happen:

  • the Vomnibar.activate command is triggered
  • random characters are entered in the URL bar
  • The now invalid URL is accessed

It does not always happen.

This has happened on both Chromium and Firefox

Chromium version

Chromium 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)
Revision 164c37e3f235134c88e80fac2a182cfba3f07f00-
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 6.6.346.32
Flash 25.0.0.148 /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/66.0.3359.181 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36
Command Line /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=25.0.0.148 --enable-pinch --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
Profile Path /home/asymmetric/.config/chromium/Default

Firefox version

Application Basics

Name: Firefox
Version: 61.0b14
Build ID: 20180614184829
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
OS: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic
Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 (Enabled by user)
Web Content Processes: 4/4
Enterprise Policies: Inactive
Google Key: Found
Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
Safe Mode: false

Extension version

1.63.3

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Research direction

Reproduce the intermittent behavior with a Yubikey Neo in Chromium and Firefox, focusing on the Vomnibar.activate command, random URL-bar input, and navigation. Compare behavior with the key plugged in versus absent and identify the triggering input sequence. Done means the cause is isolated and the unwanted command, characters, and navigation no longer occur.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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