What is CVE-2021-38400?

CVE-2021-38400 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude, classified under Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort. CVSS score: 6.9/10. Published 2021-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2021-38400?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude

CVE-2021-38400

An attacker with physical access to Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude Model 3120 can remove the hard disk drive or create a specially crafted USB to extract the password hash for brute force reverse engineering of the system password.

Published 2021-10-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (3.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 4th percentile — 3.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-916 — Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

References

us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsma-21-273-01 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-38400?: CVE-2021-38400 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude, classified under Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort. CVSS score: 6.9/10. Published 2021-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2021-38400?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.9 out of 10.