Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-33221

Medium

Published: 15 December 2023

Published
15 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0054 68.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-33221 is a medium-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Idemia Sigma Lite Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 31.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

When reading DesFire keys, the function that reads the card isn't properly checking the boundaries when copying internally the data received. This allows a heap based buffer overflow that could lead to a potential Remote Code Execution on the targeted…

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device. This is especially problematic if you use Default DESFire key.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

idemia
sigma lite firmware
≤ 4.15.5
idemia
sigma lite\+ firmware
≤ 4.15.5
idemia
sigma extreme firmware
≤ 4.15.5
idemia
sigma wide firmware
≤ 4.15.5
idemia
morphowave compact firmware
≤ 2.12.2
idemia
morphowave xp firmware
≤ 2.12.2
idemia
visionpass firmware
≤ 2.12.2
idemia
morphowave sp firmware
≤ 1.2.7

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References