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CVE-2018-10631 — The 8840 Clinician Programmer executes the application program from the 8870 App

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 b

CVSS
6.3 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.15% (top 64.40%)
CWE
CWE-693
Published
2018-07-13T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-08-26T14:26:52.840Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Medtronic8840 N’Vision Clinician ProgrammerAll versions
Medtronic8870 N’Vision removable Application CardAll versions

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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