Medium severity · published Dec 1, 2019
CVE-2019-19479
An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. libopensc/card-setcos.c has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 34% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31 · source: NVD
OP
Opensc · Opensc Project
through 0.19.0; 0.20.0; 0.20.0; 0.20.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19479
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19479
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/29/1
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=18693
Patch
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/c3f23b836e5a1766c36617fe1da30d22f7b63de2
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00031.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00027.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDSQLMZZYBHO5X3BK7D6E7E6NZIMZDI5/
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