The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) and the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts in regards to 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 gadget community settings to take action,” CISA stated in an advisory. “This might function a backdoor and result in a malicious actor with the ability to add and overwrite information on the gadget.”
“The reverse backdoor supplies automated connectivity to a hard-coded IP handle from the Contec CMS8000 gadgets, permitting the gadget to obtain and execute unverified distant information. Publicly obtainable data present that the IP handle shouldn’t be related to a medical gadget producer or medical facility however a third-party college.”
Two different recognized vulnerabilities within the gadgets 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 with a purpose 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 connected to the monitor
Profitable exploitation of CVE-2025-0683 might permit the gadget with that unspecified IP handle to realize entry to confidential affected person info or open the door to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) situation.
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, getting access to and doubtlessly manipulating the gadget,” the FDA stated, including it is “not conscious of any cybersecurity incidents, accidents, or deaths associated to those cybersecurity vulnerabilities presently.”
Provided that these vulnerabilities stay unpatched, CISA is recommending that organizations unplug and take away any Contec CMS8000 gadgets from their networks. It is price noting that the gadgets are additionally re-labeled and bought underneath the identify Epsimed MN-120.
It is also suggested to examine the affected person displays for any indicators of bizarre functioning, comparable 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 Methods, a developer of medical gadgets which are positioned in Qinhuangdao, China. On its web site, the corporate claims its merchandise are FDA-approved and distributed to over 130 international locations and areas.