pkcs15-tool in OpenSC before 0.11.6 does not apply security updates to a smart card unless the card's label matches the "OpenSC" string,…

Description

pkcs15-tool in OpenSC before 0.11.6 does not apply security updates to a smart card unless the card's label matches the "OpenSC" string, which might allow physically proximate attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that the card owner expected were patched, as demonstrated by exploitation of CVE-2008-2235.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.6.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• opensc-pkcs15tool-weak-security(45045) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 34362 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-2267 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20080909 Re: opensc 0.11.6 with fixed security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [opensc-announce] 20080827 opensc 0.11.6 with fixed security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 32099 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2008:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-3972](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-3972.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-3972)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:00 UTC.