🛡️ CVE-2024-45618 — enterprise-linux

🟢 CVSS 3.9 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-457 NVD
3.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in pkcs15-init in OpenSC. An attacker could use a crafted USB Device or Smart Card, which would present the system with a specially crafted response to APDUs.

Insufficient or missing checking of return values of functions leads to unexpected work with variables that have not been initialized.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Affected software

CVE-2024-45618 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • opensc (fixed in 0.26.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 September 2024 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
lists.debian.org

CVE-2024-45618 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-457
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
opensc — 0.26.0

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