CVE-2024-45616: Opensc Project Opensc

Low severity, CVSS 3.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in OpenSC, OpenSC tools, PKCS#11 module, minidriver, and CTK. An attacker could use a crafted USB Device or Smart Card, which would present the system with a specially crafted response to APDUs. The following problems were caused by insufficient control of the response APDU buffer and its length when communicating with the card.

Affected products

• Opensc Project Opensc: before 0.26.0 (fixed in 0.26.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-30.