🛡️ CVE-2023-40661
🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-119 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-119
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-06
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
opensc — 0.23.0

References

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