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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-12996

Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances.

Published Dec 4, 2025 · catalog updated Dec 9, 2025 · Medtronic CareLink Network

Last checked Oct 27, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-12996. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of Medtronic CareLink Network is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.

Same product and reporting

Severity
Medium4.1
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.11%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor Medtronic CareLink Network 0 <December 4, 2025

Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances. This issue affects CareLink Network: before December 4, 2025.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor Medtronic CareLink Network 0 <December 4, 20250 <December 4, 2025

How to fix CVE-2025-12996

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-12996. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of Medtronic CareLink Network is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Medtronic CareLink Network 0 <December 4, 2025 0 <December 4, 2025. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.11%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 4, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances. This issue affects CareLink Network: before December 4, 2025.

  2. Dec 9, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances. This issue affects CareLink Network: before December 4, 2025.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-12996

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-12996

    30-day exploitation probability 0.11%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-201287

    Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances. This issue affects CareLink Network: before December 4, 2025.

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 27, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • CVE.orgOct 27, 2026
  • FIRST EPSSOct 27, 2026
  • EUVDOct 27, 2026