National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2008-2235)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2235

Original release date:08/01/2008

Last revised:03/25/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

OpenSC 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.9 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Siemens (08/14/2008): Siemens 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: scs-support.med@siemens.com Phone: +49 89 636 35996 (Mo.-Fr. 9:00-17:00 German time)

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External Source: BID

Name: 30473

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30473

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-2267

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00686.html

External Source: XF

Name: opensc-smartcard-cryptotoken-weak-security(44140)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44140

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.opensc-project.org/security.html