Some NVIDIA Tegra mobile processors released prior to 2016 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in BootROM Recovery Mode (RCM). An attacker with physical access to the device's USB and the ability to force the device to reboot into RCM could exploit the vulnerability to execute unverified code.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18003 Some NVIDIA Tegra mobile processors released prior to 2016 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in BootROM Recovery Mode (RCM). An attacker with physical access to the device's USB and the ability to force the device to reboot into RCM could exploit the vulnerability to execute unverified code.
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History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.03643}

epss

{'score': 0.03254}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T16:53:48.144Z

Reserved: 2018-01-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6242

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-01T20:29:00.280

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:10:22.050

Link: CVE-2018-6242

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