CVE-2019-14237 is a critical vulnerability affecting NXP Kinetis KV1x, KV3x, and K8x microcontrollers, where Flash Access Controls (FAC) designed for execute-only memory protection can be bypassed. This allows an attacker to observe CPU registers and instruction execution, effectively defeating the intended software IP protection. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While highly severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nxp:kinetis_kv1x_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nxp:kinetis_kv3x_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nxp:kinetis_k8x_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.