CVE-2011-3386
Unspecified vulnerability in Medtronic Paradigm wireless insulin pump 512, 522, 712, and 722 allows remote attackers to modify the…
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- mitre
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Medtronic Paradigm wireless insulin pump 512, 522, 712, and 722 allows remote attackers to modify the delivery of an insulin bolus dose and cause a denial of service (adverse human health effects) via unspecified vectors involving wireless communications and knowledge of the device's serial number, as demonstrated by Jerome Radcliffe at the Black Hat USA conference in August 2011. NOTE: the vendor has disputed the severity of this issue, saying "we believe the risk of deliberate, malicious, or unauthorized manipulation of medical devices is extremely low... we strongly believe it would be extremely difficult for a third-party to wirelessly tamper with your insulin pump... you would be able to detect tones on the insulin pump that weren't intentionally programmed and could intervene accordingly."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackersCanKillDiabeticsWithInsulinPumpsFromAHalfMileAwayUmNoFactsVsJournalisticFearMongering.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.scmagazineus.com/black-hat-insulin-pumps-can-be-hacked/article/209106/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.loop-blog.com/Blog_Full_Post?id=a09C000000Dbz3JIAR (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://sixuntilme.com/blog2/2011/08/hacked_jay_radcliffe_insulin_p.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/04/insulin-pumps-vulnerable-to-hacking/?test=faces (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- paradigm-insulin-pump-dos(69643) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/231600265 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/231300312/getting-root-on-the-human-body.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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