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    1 vulnerability by OpenSC project

    CVE-2025-24531 (GCVE-0-2025-24531)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-16 00:00 – Updated: 2026-01-16 18:07
    VLAI
    Summary
    In OpenSC pam_pkcs11 before 0.6.13, pam_sm_authenticate() wrongly returns PAM_IGNORE in many error situations (such as an error triggered by a smartcard before login), allowing authentication bypass.
    Severity
    6.7 (Medium)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-393 - Return of Wrong Status Code
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    OpenSC project pam_pkcs11 Affected: 0.6.12 , < 0.6.13 (semver)
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