# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-40660"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-11-06T16:58:42.939Z"
updatedAt: "2025-11-06T22:59:00.695Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-40660"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-40660.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40660"
title: "Opensc: potential pin bypass when card tracks its own login state"
summary: "A flaw was found in OpenSC packages that allow a potential PIN bypass. When a token/card is authenticated by one process, it can perform cryptographic operations in other processes when an empty zero-length pin is passed. This issue poses a security risk, particularly for OS logon/screen unlock and for small, permanently connected tokens to computers. Additionally, the token can internally track login status. This flaw allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access, carry out malicious actions, or compromise the system without the user's awareness."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.17.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.24.0"}],"packageName":"OpenSC","collectionURL":"https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0:0.20.0-7.el8_9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"rpm","lessThan":"*"}],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","packageName":"opensc","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0:0.23.0-3.el9_3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"rpm","lessThan":"*"}],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","packageName":"opensc","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","packageName":"opensc","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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