CVE-2008-2235

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-2235
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-08-01 14:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionOpenSC before 0.11.5 uses weak permissions (ADMIN file control information of 00) for the 5015 directory on smart cards and USB crypto tokens running Siemens CardOS M4, which allows physically proximate attackers to change the PIN.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-310 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Complete
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.0 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.1 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.2 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.3 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.3 pre3 All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.11.4 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.3.2 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.3.5 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.4.0 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.6.0 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.6.1 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.7.0 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.8 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.8.0.0 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.8.1 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9.6 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9.7 All All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9.7 b All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9.7 d All All
Application Opensc-project Opensc 0.9.8 All All All
Operating System Siemens Cardos m4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenSC CardOS Improper Initialization Security Issue - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
OpenSC Security Vulnerability and new Versions of OpenSC, OpenCT, LibP11, Pam_P11, Engine_PKCS11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.opensc-project.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: opensc-0.11.7-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
OpenSC: Insufficient protection of smart card PIN — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:004 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Fedora update for opensc - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA33115 - Gentoo update for opensc - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:019 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:183 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Debian update for opensc - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
opensc-project.org Home of open source smart card solutions af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.opensc-project.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1627-2 opensc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
OpenSC CardOS M4 Smart Cards Insecure Permissions Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Siemens2008-08-14Siemens has analyzed this report and states that no security breach can be found in the Siemens CardOS M4 itself and it thus does not relate to any Siemens component. The reported vulnerability (caused by inappropriate personalization) is due to an issue in the OPENSC middleware detailed information can be found under http://www.opensc-project.org/security.html. Therefore, Siemens recommends all customers and partners using OPENSC to use either the current version 0.11.5 of OPENSC in which this vulnerability is fixed or to use the bug fix suggested under http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/3333/. We hope that we could help you with this recommendation. If you have further questions, please contact the Siemens CardOS hotline under: [email protected] Phone: +49 89 636 35996 (Mo.-Fr. 9:00-17:00 German time)

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