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CVE-2009-4901

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4901 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the PC/SC Smart Card daemon (PCSCD) in MUSCLE PCSC-Lite versions prior to 1.5.4. A local attacker can crash the daemon by sending crafted SCARD_SET_ATTRIB message data, leading to a buffer over-read during demarshalling. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muscle:pcsc-lite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muscle:pcsc-lite:1.1.2:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muscle:pcsc-lite:1.1.2:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muscle:pcsc-lite:1.1.2:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muscle:pcsc-lite:1.1.2:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (24)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: ant-0:1.6.5-1jpp_1rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: avalon-logkit-0:1.2-2jpp_4rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: axis-0:1.2.1-1jpp_3rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: classpathx-jaf-0:1.0-2jpp_6rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: classpathx-mail-0:1.1.1-2jpp_8rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: geronimo-specs-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: jakarta-commons-modeler-0:2.0-3jpp_2rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: log4j-0:1.2.12-1jpp_1rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: mx4j-1:3.0.1-1jpp_4rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: pcsc-lite-0:1.3.3-3.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-ca-0:7.3.0-20.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-java-tools-0:7.3.0-10.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-kra-0:7.3.0-14.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-manage-0:7.3.0-19.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-native-tools-0:7.3.0-6.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-ocsp-0:7.3.0-13.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: rhpki-tks-0:7.3.0-13.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: xerces-j2-0:2.7.1-1jpp_1rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3Fixed in: xml-commons-0:1.3.02-2jpp_1rh
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pcsc-lite-0:1.4.4-4.el5_5
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redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pcsc-lite

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-4901Moderate

pcsc-lite: Privilege escalation via specially-crafted client to PC/SC Smart Card daemon messages

Jun 10, 2010

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042900.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042921.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/40140
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40239
Vendor Advisory
svn.debian.org / wsvn/pcsclite
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2059
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/40758
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1427
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1508
Vendor Advisory