CVE-2018-6242General(nvidia / tegra_bootrom_rcm)

LOWCVSS 6.8 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-119

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • tegra_bootrom_rcm
  • tegra_mobile_processor

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
tegra_bootrom_rcmtegra_mobile_processor

1 version affected across 2 products

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-09-15: 109-15
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
By indicator
Full discourse1 post
  • べるᓀ‸ᓂ🐋🐧🐳@Beru_atom_n455
    General

    初代SwitchでCFWの抜け道となった脆弱性もCNAの識別子が付与されているのね https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2018-6242

    Post summary

    The tweet observes that the vulnerability historically used for custom firmware on the original Nintendo Switch has been assigned a CNA identifier, linking to the official NVD entry without providing additional technical details, exploit code, or remediation information.

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CPE platform detail2 entries

2 of 2 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
Appnvidiategra_bootrom_rcm---
HWnvidiategra_mobile_processor---

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