NRF52810 Runtime EM Fault Injection APPROTECT Bypass_CVE-2025-9709

8.6 / 10

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

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-9709

Source Toreon

Published Sep 5, 2025 at 17:16

Modified Sep 5, 2025 at 18:07

Affected Product

Vendor Nordic Semiconductor

Product nRF52810

Affected Versions Nordic Semiconductor nRF52810 0

CWE Classification

CWE-1191 CWE-1319

References

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