A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer (the affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown part of the component Credential Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-255. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

All versions of the Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer are affected by a per-product username and password that is stored in a recoverable format which could allow an attacker with physical access to a 2090 Programmer to obtain per-product credentials to the software deployment network.

The bug was discovered 02/27/2018. The weakness was disclosed 05/04/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-5446 since 01/12/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 66 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 117373 and 120170 are pretty similar.

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