OpenSC up to 0.23 PKCS#1 Padding information exposure

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A vulnerability was found in OpenSC. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component PKCS#1 Padding Handler. Such manipulation leads to information exposure. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-5992. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenSC. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component PKCS#1 Padding Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information exposure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-203. The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was published 01/31/2024. The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-5992 since 11/07/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213413 (Debian dla-4004 : opensc - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.24.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213413). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Name

• OpenSC

Version

• 0.2.0
• 0.3.2
• 0.3.5
• 0.4.0
• 0.5.0
• 0.6.0
• 0.6.1
• 0.7.0
• 0.8
• 0.8.0
• 0.8.0.0
• 0.8.1
• 0.9
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.4
• 0.9.5
• 0.9.6
• 0.9.7
• 0.9.8
• 0.10.0
• 0.10.1
• 0.11.0
• 0.11.1
• 0.11.2
• 0.11.3
• 0.11.4
• 0.11.5
• 0.11.6
• 0.11.7
• 0.11.8
• 0.11.9
• 0.11.10
• 0.11.11
• 0.11.12
• 0.11.13
• 0.19.0
• 0.19.0-rc1
• 0.20.0
• 0.20.0-rc1
• 0.20.0-rc3
• 0.21.0-rc1
• 0.22.0
• 0.23

License

• open-source

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