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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:16 – Updated: 2025-09-05 18:07
VLAI
Title
NRF52810 Runtime EM Fault Injection APPROTECT Bypass
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.
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
References
Impacted products
Credits
Milena Mangiola
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