{"id":"CVE-2025-0683","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-0683","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:48:31.866Z","title":"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.","description":"In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor transmits plain-text \npatient data to a hard-coded public IP address when a patient is hooked \nup to the monitor. This could lead to a leakage of confidential patient \ndata to any device with that IP address or an attacker in a \nmachine-in-the-middle scenario.","published":"2025-01-30T19:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:26:58.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-359"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00792,"percentile":0.56056,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.79%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-25-030-01","source":"ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov"},{"url":"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-certain-patient-monitors-contec-and-epsimed-fda-safety-communication","source":"ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov"},{"url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-found-in-two-healthcare-patient-monitors-linked-to-ip-in-china/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/contec-cms8000-contains-backdoor","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-certain-patient-monitors-contec-and-epsimed-fda-safety-communication","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0683","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}