Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer Protection Mechanism Failure

published 2018-07-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2703

cvss: 6.3; 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 35%
public exploits: 0; none known

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 Programmer.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-18-137-01 updated 2018-07-12 cvss 6.3

Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer (Update A)

Medtronic 8840 N'Vision Clinician Programmer Medtronic 8870 N'Vision removable Application Card
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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-08-19)

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Medtronic 8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer
Medtronic 8870 N’Vision removable Application Card
ics_cert medtronic_n_vision_clinician_programmer

Classification

Weakness

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

References

medtronic.com /security
vendor-advisory
global.medtronic.com /xg-en/product-security/security-bulletins/nvision.html
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSMA-18-137-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/104213

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-10631
NVD CVE-2018-10631

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Summary