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CVE-2026-18796

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.8). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

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
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-1342
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

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