Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer Deployment path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Deployment. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-5448. The attacker needs to be present on the local network. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Deployment. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

All versions of the Medtronic 2090 Carelink Programmer are affected by a directory traversal vulnerability where the product's software deployment network could allow an attacker to read files on the system.

The bug was discovered 02/27/2018. The weakness was presented 05/04/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-5448 since 01/12/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be initiated within the local network. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

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 vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2018-17218). See VDB-117372 and VDB-120170 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Remote: Partially

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01/12/2018 🔍
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05/04/2018 +65 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ics-cert.us-cert.gov
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-5448 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-5448
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-117373
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/05/2018 17:27
Updated: 05/22/2025 21:58
Changes: 05/05/2018 17:27 (56), 02/02/2020 15:23 (1), 05/22/2025 20:58 (28), 05/22/2025 21:58 (1)
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