CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-5672 — Nvidia Jetson Tx1 security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.1

NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and TX2 contain a vulnerability in the Linux for Tegra (L4T) operating system (on all versions prior to R28.3) where the Secure Shell (SSH) keys provided in the sample rootfs are not replaced by unique host keys after sample rootsfs generation and flashing, which may lead to information disclosure.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.1 (3.0)
Published
2019-04-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-320

Affected products

  • nvidia / jetson_tx1
  • nvidia / jetson_tx2

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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