# CVE-2018-10631: Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer Protection Mechanism Failure

> Attackers with physical access can modify application card binaries to bypass protection mechanisms and execute malicious code on the programmer.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Jul 2018
- **Updated:** 26 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4g99-xhm8-2rwc

## What is CVE-2018-10631?

CVE-2018-10631 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Medtronic 8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer, published on 13 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The 8840 Clinician Programmer executes the application program from the 8870 Application Card. An attacker with physical access to an 8870 Application Card and sufficient technical capability can modify the contents of this card, including the binary executables. If modified to bypass protection mechanisms, this malicious code will be run when the card is inserted into an 8840 Clinician Programmer.

Weakness: CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10631?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Medtronic N\'vision 8840 Firmware, Medtronic N\'vision 8870 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-10631?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10631 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-10631 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10631 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Medtronic 8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer

- [CVE-2018-8849](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-8849/): Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (medium 4.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-10631 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-10631 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Medtronic 8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer, published on 13 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10631 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Medtronic 8840 N’Vision Clinician Programmer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10631/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10631/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10631
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10631
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10631

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10631/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.