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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2018-8870 json

Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor Use of Hard-coded Password

published 2018-07-02 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-20478

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor and 24952 MyCareLink Monitor 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.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-18-179-01 updated cvss 6.4

Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor

  • Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor Medtronic 24952 MyCareLink Monitor
    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

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 6.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor
  • Medtronic 24952 MyCareLink Monitor

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-259 Use of Hard-coded Password
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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