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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2018-18984 json

Medtronic 9790, 2090 CareLink, and 29901 Encore Programmers Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

published 2018-12-14 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-10688

cvss
4.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Medtronic CareLink and Encore Programmers

do not encrypt or do not sufficiently encrypt sensitive PII and PHI information while at rest .

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSMA-18-347-01 updated cvss 4.6

Medtronic 9790, 2090 CareLink, and 29901 Encore Programmers

  • Medtronic 29901 Encore Programmer Medtronic CareLink 2090 Programmer Medtronic CareLink 9790 Programmer
    affected: vendor fix medtronic.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Medtronic CareLink 9790 Programmer
  • Medtronic CareLink 2090 Programmer
  • Medtronic 29901 Encore Programmer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.