Vulnerability in Medtronic CareLink Programmer Allows Unauthorized Update Manipulation
CVE-2018-10596
What is CVE-2018-10596?
The Medtronic 2090 CareLink Programmer is susceptible to a communication manipulation vulnerability. This issue arises because the device establishes a virtual private network (VPN) connection to securely download updates, but it fails to verify its ongoing connection to this VPN before initiating the download process. If an attacker gains local network access to the programmer, they may exploit this flaw to influence the update communications, potentially leading to unauthorized updates.

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Affected Version(s)
2090 CareLink Programmer All versions
29901 Encore Programmer All versions
References
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
