CVE-2024-8443: Opensc Project Opensc

Low severity, CVSS 2.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the libopensc OpenPGP driver. A crafted USB device or smart card with malicious responses to the APDUs during the card enrollment process using the `pkcs15-init` tool may lead to out-of-bound rights, possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Opensc Project Opensc: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-30.