CVE-2026-40528 PUBLISHED

OpenSC < 0.27.0 Buffer Overrun in do_key_value() via profile.c

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 13.04.2026 Published: 29.05.2026 Updated: 29.05.2026

OpenSC before 0.27.0, fixed in commit 0358817, contains a stack and heap buffer overrun vulnerability in the do_key_value() function in src/pkcs15init/profile.c that allows attackers to corrupt memory by supplying a crafted profile configuration file. During pkcs15-init invocation, a key value entry beginning with '=' followed by more than sizeof(keybuf) characters is copied into keybuf via memcpy without a length check, causing both stack and heap buffer overruns.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 1

Product Status

Vendor OpenSC
Product OpenSC
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 0.27.0 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 0358817ec74aeca654f83e7709c7720b14c5db59 (excl.)

Credits

  • Nicholas Carlini of Anthropic finder

References

Problem Types

  • Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE
  • Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE