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CVE-2025-9709 (GCVE-0-2025-9709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:16 – Updated: 2025-09-05 18:07
VLAI?
Summary
On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control and Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI) in Nordic Semiconductor nRF52810 allow attacker to perform EM Fault Injection and bypass APPROTECT at runtime, requiring the least amount of modification to the hardware system possible.
CWE
  • CWE-1191 - On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control
  • CWE-1319 - Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI)
  • Runtime Hardware Protection Bypass
Assigner
Impacted products
Credits
Milena Mangiola
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