{"id":"CVE-2018-6242","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-6242","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:27:38.908Z","title":"Some NVIDIA Tegra mobile processors released prior to 2016 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in BootROM Recovery Mode (RCM).","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.","published":"2018-05-01T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:01:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@nvidia.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["nvidia/tegra bootrom rcm"],"epss":{"score":0.02689,"percentile":0.85792,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4660","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@nvidia.com"},{"url":"http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4660","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6242","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}