Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor Configuration private personal information

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor. This affects an unknown part of the component Configuration Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to private personal information. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-0683. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability has been found in Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor (affected version not known) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Configuration Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a private personal information vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-359. The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In its default configuration, the affected product transmits plain-text patient data to a hard-coded public IP address when a patient is hooked up to the monitor. This could lead to a leakage of confidential patient data to any device with that IP address or an attacker in a machine-in-the-middle scenario.

The advisory is available at cisa.gov. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-0683 since 01/23/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1589 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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

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• Medical Device Software

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• Contec Health

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• CMS8000 Patient Monitor

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