# CVE-2025-0683

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-0683
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.2 (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)
- **CWE:** CWE-359
- **Published:** Jan 30, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## Description

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.

## Affected Products

- Contec Health — CMS8000 Patient Monitor (All versions)

## References

- [CNA](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-25-030-01)
- [CNA](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-certain-patient-monitors-contec-and-epsimed-fda-safety-communication)
- [CVE](https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/contec-cms8000-contains-backdoor)
- [CVE](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-found-in-two-healthcare-patient-monitors-linked-to-ip-in-china/)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.79%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 54.2

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-10._