CVE-2023-40660
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-06 16:58
Modified
2024-11-06 14:40
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Opensc: potential pin bypass when card tracks its own login state
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7876
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7879
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40660Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240912Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/2792#issuecomment-1674806651Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.24.0-rc1Release Notes
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/OpenSC-security-advisoriesVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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