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ghsa-7c3c-m7hv-59qq

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-05 18:31

Modified

2025-09-05 18:31

Severity ?

8.6 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P

Details

On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control and Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI) in Nordic Semiconductor nRF52810 allow attacker to perform EM Fault Injection and bypass APPROTECT at runtime, requiring the least amount of modification to the hardware system possible.

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CVE-2025-9709 (GCVE-0-2025-9709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-05 17:16

Modified

2025-09-05 18:07

Severity ?

8.6 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P

CWE

CWE-1191 - On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control
CWE-1319 - Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI)
Runtime Hardware Protection Bypass

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://raelize.com/upload/research/2022/No_Hat_2022_-_Glitching_devices_for_code_execution_v1.1.pdf
	https://raelize.com/upload/research/2025/Dartmouth_202505_False-Injections-Tales-of-Physics-Misconceptions-and-Weird-Machines_v1.1.pdf
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27211
	https://www.toreon.com/cve-2025-9709-major-vulnerability-in-common-chip/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Nordic Semiconductor	nRF52810	Version: 0

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