CVE-2025-12994
Medtronic Carelink Network ≤ 2025-12-04
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-12994 is a medium-severity Observable Response Discrepancy (CWE-204) vulnerability in Medtronic Carelink Network. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Account Discovery (T1087); ranked at the 22th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to IA-6 (Authentication Feedback) and SI-11 (Error Handling) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-201288
Vulnerability Data
Medtronic CareLink Network allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to initiate a request for security questions to an API endpoint that could be used to determine a valid user account. This issue affects CareLink Network: before December 4, 2025.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V13.4.5
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Obscuring authentication feedback directly stops one common source of observable response discrepancies.
Error handling explicitly requires messages that avoid revealing exploitable internal information.
Information flow enforcement can block responses that would otherwise disclose internal state to unauthorized parties.
Boundary protection monitors and filters outbound responses that could leak internal state.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent introduction of inconsistent response behavior that leaks internal state.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing can detect observable response discrepancies before deployment.
Network security controls can enforce uniform responses and suppress observable discrepancies.
Secure SDLC practices include error-handling and response standardization to avoid information disclosure.
Application security requirements typically mandate consistent, non-revealing error messages.
Secure architecture principles discourage designs that leak internal state via differing responses.
Secure coding standards explicitly require uniform error handling to prevent information leakage.