CVE-2025-0683
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor
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.
Affected Products
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Contec Health | CMS8000 Patient Monitor | unaffected |
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Remediation
Vendor Solution
Per FDA recommendation, CISA recommends users remove any Contec CMS8000 devices from their networks. Please note that this device may be re-labeled and sold by resellers. For a list of known re-labeled devices, please refer to FDA's safety communication https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-certain-patient-monitors-contec-and-epsimed-fda-safety-communication .
Tracking
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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 EUVD |
EUVD-2025-1815 | In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor 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. |
Metrics
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
Attack Requirements Present
User Interaction None
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None
Vulnerable System Availability Impact None
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
User Interaction None
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.775% probability within 30 days)
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial
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| Description | 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. | In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor 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. |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-359 | |
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