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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2018-5448 json

Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer Relative Path Traversal

published 2018-05-04 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17218

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Medtronic 2090 CareLink Programmer’s software deployment network contains a directory traversal vulnerability that could allow an attacker to read files on the system.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-18-058-01 updated cvss 4.8

Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer Vulnerabilities (Update C)

  • Medtronic 2090 CareLink Programmer Medtronic 29901 Encore 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

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 5.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.7 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Medtronic 2090 CareLink Programmer
  • Medtronic 29901 Encore Programmer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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