CVE detail

CVE-2023-40661 — CVE-2023-40661

Published 2023-11-06 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor opensc_project · Product opensc · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
5.4
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0117
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
65.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

Several memory vulnerabilities were identified within the OpenSC packages, particularly in the card enrollment process using pkcs15-init when a user or administrator enrolls cards. To take advantage of these flaws, an attacker must have physical access to the computer system and employ a custom-crafted USB device or smart card to manipulate responses to APDUs. This manipulation can potentially allow compromise key generation, certificate loading, and other card management operations during enrollment.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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