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GHSA-7C3C-M7HV-59QQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-05 18:31 – Updated: 2025-09-05 18:31

Details

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.

Severity ?

8.6 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P

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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

Summary

Severity ?

8.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P

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

Toreon

References

URL

Tags

	https://raelize.com/upload/research/2022/No_Hat_2…
	https://raelize.com/upload/research/2025/Dartmout…
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27211
	https://www.toreon.com/cve-2025-9709-major-vulner…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Nordic Semiconductor	nRF52810	Affected: 0

Credits

Milena Mangiola

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Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-7C3C-M7HV-59QQ

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

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