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ghsa-w48q-g7g7-4m96

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:31

Modified

2025-06-27 18:30

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer 8840 N'Vision Clinician Programmer, all versions, and 8870 N'Vision removable Application Card, all versions does not encrypt PII and PHI while at rest.

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  "id": "GHSA-w48q-g7g7-4m96",
  "modified": "2025-06-27T18:30:32Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:31:49Z",
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CVE-2018-8849 (GCVE-0-2018-8849)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-05-18 13:00

Modified

2025-06-27 16:24

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-311 - MISSING ENCRYPTION OF SENSITIVE DATA

Summary

Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer 8840 N'Vision Clinician Programme and 8870 N'Vision removable Application Card do not encrypt PII and PHI while at rest.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104213	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-18-137-01	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-com/us-en/corporate/documents/Medtronic-NVision-8840_Security-Bulletin_FINAL.pdf	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.medtronic.com/security

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Medtronic

N'Vision Clinician Programmer

Version: all versions

Medtronic

8870 N’Vision removable Application Card

Version: all versions

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