CVE-2021-38394
Missing Protection against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit Imaging Techniques for Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Missing Protection against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit Imaging Techniques for Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.
- Record
CVE-2021-38394- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-1278
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-24846
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.
- Record
EUVD-2021-24846- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c3hf-72hw-fvr7 No score
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the...
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.
- Record
GHSA-c3hf-72hw-fvr7- Weakness
- CWE-1278
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.
- Record
CVE-2021-38394- CVSS 3.1
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L - CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 Medium
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-1278
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-38394 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.2) in Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude, published October 4, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.23%, the 14th percentile. No source names a fixed version.