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CVE-2018-10631: Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer Protection Mechanism Failure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-693

Description

The 8840 Clinician Programmer executes the application program from the 8870 Application Card. An attacker with physical access to an 8870 Application Card and sufficient technical capability can modify the contents of this card, including the binary executables. If modified to bypass protection mechanisms, this malicious code will be run when the card is inserted into an 8840 Clinician Programmer.

Affected products

• Medtronic N'Vision 8840 Firmware: all versions
• Medtronic N'Vision 8870 Firmware: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104213
• https://global.medtronic.com/xg-en/product-security/security-bulletins/nvision.html
• https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-137-01
• https://www.medtronic.com/security
• https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-137-01
• https://www.medtronic.com/security

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