CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-18796

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-07 Modified 2026-09-09 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-09-07
Last modified
2026-09-09
Assigner
30a5e7fb-040d-440a-8cdf-a4a2068ce72e
CVSS 4.0 (30a5e7fb-040d-440a-8cdf-a4a2068ce72e)
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weaknesses
CWE-1342

Description

Any application that uses external QSPI flash for encrypted XIP on nRF5340 and relies on that encryption for confidentiality and/or integrity of the externally stored code. No specific nRF Connect SDK version is the root cause; the weakness is in the on-the-fly decryption scheme.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1342 Information Exposure through Microarchitectural State after Transient Execution weakness

References