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CVE-2019-19479 json

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3.

published 2019-12-01 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-9099

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. libopensc/card-setcos.c has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.

Patch / fix

  • opensc Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.20.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19479

  • opensc RHEL 8 0.20.0-2.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4483

  • opensc SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 0.18.0-150000.3.23.1
  • opensc SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 0.19.0-3.7.1
  • opensc SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 0.13.0-3.11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1041-1SUSE-SU-2021:1168-1SUSE-SU-2021:0998-1

  • opensc openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.21.0-2.2
  • opensc openSUSE Leap 15.2 0.19.0-lp152.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11123-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0565-1

  • opensc Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 0.20.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-19479

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • opensc Arch Linux 0.20.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1106

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19479 updated cvss 4.3

opensc: Incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 opensc
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) opensc 0.20.0-2.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4483

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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