CVE-2024-45618: Opensc Project Opensc

Low severity, CVSS 3.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in pkcs15-init in OpenSC. An attacker could use a crafted USB Device or Smart Card, which would present the system with a specially crafted response to APDUs. Insufficient or missing checking of return values of functions leads to unexpected work with variables that have not been initialized.

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.