CVE-2018-8870

Summary

CVECVE-2018-8870
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-03 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:42:00 UTC
DescriptionMedtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor, 24950 MyCareLink Monitor, all versions, and 24952 MyCareLink Monitor, all versions contains a hard-coded operating system password. An attacker with physical access can remove the case of the device, connect to the debug port, and use the password to gain privileged access to the operating system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-798

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Medtronic 24950 Mycarelink Monitor - All All All
Hardware Medtronic 24950 Mycarelink Monitor - All All All
Operating System Medtronic 24950 Mycarelink Monitor Firmware - All All All
Operating System Medtronic 24950 Mycarelink Monitor Firmware - All All All
Hardware Medtronic 24952 Mycarelink Monitor - All All All
Hardware Medtronic 24952 Mycarelink Monitor - All All All
Operating System Medtronic 24952 Mycarelink Monitor Firmware - All All All
Operating System Medtronic 24952 Mycarelink Monitor Firmware - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor | CISA MISC ics-cert.us-cert.gov Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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