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CVE-2023-5992
Opensc: side-channel leaks while stripping encryption pkcs#1 padding
Medium5.6EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A vulnerability was found in OpenSC where PKCS#1 encryption padding removal is not implemented as side-channel resistant. This issue may result in the potential leak of private data.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- unaffected 0:0.20.0-8.el8_9 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- unaffected 0:0.23.0-4.el9_3 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: affected
References (10)
- RHSA-2024:0966 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:0967 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5992 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2248685 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/CVE-2023-5992 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity24-shagam.pdf (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OWIZ5ZLO5ECYPLSTESCF7I7PQO5X6ZSU/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RJI2FWLY24EOPALQ43YPQEZMEP3APPPI/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UECKC7X4IM4YZQ5KRQMNBNKNOXLZC7RZ/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00026.html (opens in a new tab)
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)
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