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CVE-2018-16427

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16427 describes several out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in OpenSC versions prior to 0.19.0-rc1, affecting the opensc_project opensc library. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) requires physical access to the system and a crafted smartcard to trigger, potentially leading to a denial-of-service condition by crashing the library. 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
<= 0.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensc_project:opensc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 170 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: opensc-0:0.19.0-3.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16427Moderate

opensc: Out of bounds reads handling responses from smartcards

Sep 12, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2154
github.com / OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744fa
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1
PatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
x41-dsec.de / lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC
Third Party Advisory