CVE-2018-8870Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor Use of Hard-coded Password
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It affects Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor and 3 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.36%, higher than 28% of scored CVEs.
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Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor and 24952 MyCareLink Monitor contains a hard-coded operating system password. An attacker with physical access can remove the case of the device, connect to the debug port, and use the password to gain privileged access to the operating system.
- CVSS
- 6.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-259
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.36% (percentile 28)
- Assigned by
- icscert
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- May 22, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 12, 2026
Affected products
Medtronic 24950 MyCareLink Monitor medtronic:24950_mycarelink_monitor (from the name) | all versions | CNA record |
Medtronic 24952 MyCareLink Monitor medtronic:24952_mycarelink_monitor (from the name) | all versions | CNA record |
medtronic 24950_mycarelink_monitor_firmware medtronic:24950_mycarelink_monitor_firmware | all versions | NVD |
medtronic 24952_mycarelink_monitor_firmware medtronic:24952_mycarelink_monitor_firmware | all versions | NVD |
References
- https://global.medtronic.com/xg-en/product-security/security-bulletins/mycarelink-6-28-18.html
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-179-01third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
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