Medium severity · published Sep 4, 2018
CVE-2018-16426
Endless recursion when handling responses from an IAS-ECC card in iasecc_select_file in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to…
4.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Endless recursion when handling responses from an IAS-ECC card in iasecc_select_file in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to hang or crash the opensc library using programs.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Opensc · Opensc Project
through 0.18.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16426
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16426
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
Patch
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/03628449b75a93787eb2359412a3980365dda49b#diff-f8c0128e14031ed9307d47f10f601b54
Patch
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
Exploit
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/
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