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CVE-2024-48971
Clinician Password and Serial Number Clinician Password are hard-coded in Life2000 Ventilator
Critical9.3EPSS 0.22%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Baxter
Description
The Clinician Password and Serial Number Clinician Password are hard-coded into the ventilator in plaintext form. This could allow an attacker to obtain the password off the ventilator and use it to gain unauthorized access to the device, with clinician privileges.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| BaxterCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 88% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
Baxter · Life2000 Ventilation System
- affected 06.08.00.00 and prior
References (1)
Sources
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