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Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers to Tamper With Doses Delivered by Medical Infusion Pumps

26
Aug
2021
Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers to Tamper With Doses Delivered by Medical Infusion Pumps

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A total of five vulnerabilities were identified, the most severe of which carries a CVSS score of 9.7 and is tracked as CVE-2021-33885. The issue exists because the device doesn’t verify who is sending the commands, thus allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to send input to the device, which will use it instead of the correct data.

Next in line is CVE-2021-33886 (CVSS score of 8.2), where proprietary networking commands aren’t properly authenticated, thus allowing an attacker to reconfigure the device remotely.

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