CVE-2018-10631 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-10631

Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer Protection Mechanism Failure

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts of Whitescope LLC reported this vulnerability

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer, 8870 N’Vision removable Application Card
Vulnerable Versions:
All versions

Timeline

Official Publish: July 13th, 2018
Last Modified: August 26th, 2025
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-693

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact