The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) and the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts concerning the presence of hidden performance in Contec CMS8000 affected person displays and Epsimed MN-120 affected person displays.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 rating of seven.7 on a scale of 10.0. The flaw, alongside two different points, was reported to CISA by an nameless exterior researcher.
“The affected product sends out distant entry requests to a hard-coded IP handle, bypassing current machine community settings to take action,” CISA mentioned in an advisory. “This might function a backdoor and result in a malicious actor having the ability to add and overwrite recordsdata on the machine.”
“The reverse backdoor offers automated connectivity to a hard-coded IP handle from the Contec CMS8000 units, permitting the machine to obtain and execute unverified distant recordsdata. Publicly accessible data present that the IP handle shouldn’t be related to a medical machine producer or medical facility however a third-party college.”
Two different recognized vulnerabilities within the units are listed under –
- CVE-2024-12248 (CVSS v4 rating: 9.3) – An out-of-bounds write vulnerability that might permit an attacker to ship specifically formatted UDP requests in an effort to write arbitrary knowledge, leading to distant code execution
- CVE-2025-0683 (CVSS v4 rating: 8.2) – A privateness leakage vulnerability that causes plain-text affected person knowledge to be transmitted to a hard-coded public IP handle when the affected person is hooked up to the monitor
Profitable exploitation of CVE-2025-0683 may permit the machine with that unspecified IP handle to realize entry to confidential affected person data or open the door to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) state of affairs.
The safety holes have an effect on the next merchandise –
- CMS8000 Affected person Monitor: Firmware model smart3250-2.6.27-wlan2.1.7.cramfs
- CMS8000 Affected person Monitor: Firmware model CMS7.820.075.08/0.74(0.75)
- CMS8000 Affected person Monitor: Firmware model CMS7.820.120.01/0.93(0.95)
- CMS8000 Affected person Monitor: All variations (CVE-2025-0626 and CVE-2025-0683)
“These cybersecurity vulnerabilities can permit unauthorized actors to bypass cybersecurity controls, having access to and probably manipulating the machine,” the FDA mentioned, including it is “not conscious of any cybersecurity incidents, accidents, or deaths associated to those cybersecurity vulnerabilities at the moment.”
On condition that these vulnerabilities stay unpatched, CISA is recommending that organizations unplug and take away any Contec CMS8000 units from their networks. It is value noting that the units are additionally re-labeled and offered below the identify Epsimed MN-120.
It is also suggested to verify the affected person displays for any indicators of bizarre functioning, similar to “inconsistencies between the displayed affected person vitals and the affected person’s precise bodily state.”
CMS8000 Affected person Monitor is manufactured by Contec Medical Techniques, a developer of medical units which are positioned in Qinhuangdao, China. On its web site, the corporate claims its merchandise are FDA-approved and distributed to over 130 nations and areas.