Missing Protection Against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit (IC) Imaging Techniques

Information stored in hardware may be recovered by an attacker with the capability to capture and analyze images of the integrated circuit using techniques such as scanning electron microscopy.

CVEs (1)

CVE VENDORS PRODUCTS UPDATED PUBLISHED CVSS
CVE-2021-38394 1Bostonscientific 1Zoom Latitude Pogrammer/recorder/monitor 3120 Firmware Jun 17, 2026 Oct 4, 2021 N/A· v4 6.4 MEDIUM· v3 6.9 MEDIUM· v2 An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key...Show more An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.Show less

CVE

VENDORS

PRODUCTS

UPDATED

PUBLISHED

CVSS

CVE-2021-38394

1Bostonscientific

1Zoom Latitude Pogrammer/recorder/monitor 3120 Firmware

Jun 17, 2026

Oct 4, 2021

N/A· v4

6.4 MEDIUM· v3

6.9 MEDIUM· v2

An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key...Show more