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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2026-18796 EUVD-2026-72300GHSA-q9vx-6fw9-4mv8

QSPI flash encryption side-channel leakage

Published Sep 7, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Assigned by YesWeHack

Description

Any application that
uses external QSPI flash for encrypted XIP on nRF5340 and relies on that
encryption for confidentiality and/or integrity of the externally stored
code. No specific nRF Connect SDK version is the root cause; the weakness
is in the on-the-fly decryption scheme.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Nordic Semiconductor ASA nRF5340 All build codes —

References