CVE-2008-3972: Opensc-Project Opensc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opensc-Project Opensc: up to and including 0.11.5; version 0.4.0 only; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.6.0 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.7.0 only; …

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.