CVE-2021-38396 (GCVE-0-2021-38396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-04 17:35 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:46
VLAI
Title
Missing Support Integrity Check for Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude
Summary
The programmer installation utility does not perform a cryptographic authenticity or integrity checks of the software on the flash drive. An attacker could leverage this weakness to install unauthorized software using a specially crafted USB.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-353 - Missing Support for Integrity Check
Assigner
icscert CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 342 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Boston Scientific ZOOM LATITUDE Affected: Model 3120
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Date Public
2021-09-30 00:00
Credits
Endres Puschner - Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Christoph Saatjohann - FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, Christian Dresen - FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, and Markus Willing - University of Muenster, discovered these issues as part of broader academic research of cardiac devices and reported them to Boston Scientific.
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