Security advisory

{
  "id": "a6f7978ca0755172782e1124c10ed76bd36942ab50be69c7e7cb080ae5eeec59",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16427",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-16427",
    "summary": "Various out of bounds reads when handling responses in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to potentially crash the opensc library using programs.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-16427",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-16427",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-16427"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/opensc/opensc",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "eb60481f89526f34478e73815ca3bd5c0238c652"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "b5a6f9aa6e5a8d0d2e7344319650af7f37a68581"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:opensc_project:opensc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.18.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "b5a6f9aa6e5a8d0d2e7344319650af7f37a68581"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "0.19.0-rc1"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.18.0",
            "0.18.0-rc2",
            "0.18.0-rc1",
            "0.17.0",
            "0.17.0-rc2",
            "0.17.0-rc1",
            "0.16.0",
            "v0.16.0-pre1",
            "0.15.0",
            "0.14.0",
            "0.14.0rtm",
            "0.14.0rc2",
            "0.13.0",
            "0.13.0rc1",
            "0.13.0pre1",
            "v0.12.2",
            "0.12.2",
            "0.12.2-rc1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16427.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:03.473266950Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154",
        "https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/",
        "https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744fa",
        "https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-16427",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381201,
  "published_at": "2018-09-04T00:29:01.417+00:00"
}