Medium severity · published Oct 6, 2020
CVE-2020-26572
The TCOS smart card software driver in OpenSC before 0.21.0-rc1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in tcos_decipher
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The TCOS smart card software driver in OpenSC before 0.21.0-rc1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in tcos_decipher.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33 · source: NVD
OP
Opensc · Opensc Project
through 0.20.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26572
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26572
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/24/4
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=22967
Patch
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/9d294de90d1cc66956389856e60b6944b27b4817
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/EXOHFDMNMO6IDECAGUTB3SJGAGXVRT6S/
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