Oxford Nano MinKNOW up to 24.10 unusual condition

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Oxford Nano MinKNOW up to 24.10. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation results in unusual condition. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-10937. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Oxford Nano MinKNOW up to 24.10. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unusual condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-754. The product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinKNOW software at or prior to version 24.11 creates a temporary file to store the local authentication token during startup, before copying it to its final location. This temporary file is created in a directory accessible to all users on the system. An unauthorized local user or process can exploit this behavior by placing a file lock on the temporary token file using the flock system call. This prevents MinKNOW from completing the token generation process. As a result, no valid local token is created, and the software is unable to execute commands on the sequencer. This leads to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, blocking sequencing operations.

The weakness was disclosed by Sara Rampazzi, Christina Boucher, Carson Stillman and Jonathan E. Bravo as icsma-25-294-01. The advisory is shared for download at cisa.gov. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-10937 since 09/25/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 24.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Medical Device Software

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• Oxford Nano

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• MinKNOW

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• 24.0
• 24.1
• 24.2
• 24.3
• 24.4
• 24.5
• 24.6
• 24.7
• 24.8
• 24.9
• 24.10

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