Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-45618

Low

Published: 03 September 2024

Published
03 September 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.0th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-45618 is a low-severity Use of Uninitialized Variable (CWE-457) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 3.9 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in pkcs15-init in OpenSC. An attacker could use a crafted USB Device or Smart Card, which would present the system with a specially crafted response to APDUs. Insufficient or missing checking of return values of functions…

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leads to unexpected work with variables that have not been initialized.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

redhat
enterprise linux
7.0, 8.0, 9.0
opensc project
opensc
≤ 0.26.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References