CVE-2010-4523
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in libopensc in OpenSC 0.11.13 and earlier allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long serial-number field on a smart card, related to (1) card-acos5.c, (2) card-atrust-acos.c, and (3) card-starcos.c.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.9% (59th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4491)
- Published
- January 7, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4491 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
- opensc-project / opensc
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607427(Exploit, Patch)
- http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/files/Advisories/mwri_opensc-get-serial-buffer-overflow_2010-12-13.pdf(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052777.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052796.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/2(Exploit, Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/22/3(Exploit, Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42658(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42807(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
- http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/When-a-smart-card-can-root-your-computer-1154829.html(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:011
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45435
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0009(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0109
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opensc/+bug/692483(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664831(Exploit, Patch)
- https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/changeset/4913(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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