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CVE-2018-16427

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Various out of bounds reads when handling responses in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to potentially crash the opensc library using programs.

Affected products

• OpenSC: through 0.18.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744fa
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744fa
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/

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