Philips SureSigns VS4 A.07.107 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Philips SureSigns VS4 A.07.107. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-16241. It is feasible to perform the attack on the physical device. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Philips SureSigns VS4 A.07.107. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Philips SureSigns VS4, A.07.107 and prior. The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

The weakness was disclosed 08/21/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.cisa.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-16241 since 07/31/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2020-8207). The entries VDB-160145 and VDB-160146 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Yes
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

07/31/2020 🔍
08/21/2020 +21 days 🔍
08/22/2020 +1 days 🔍
06/05/2025 +1747 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: philips.ch

Advisory: us-cert.cisa.gov
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-16241 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-16241
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-160147
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/22/2020 09:06
Updated: 06/05/2025 01:35
Changes: 08/22/2020 09:06 (37), 08/22/2020 09:11 (17), 06/05/2025 00:39 (29), 06/05/2025 01:35 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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