A Use of Hard-coded Credentials issue was discovered in Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump, Version 1.1, 1.5, and…

published 2018-02-15 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4263

cvss: 8.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Use of Hard-coded Credentials issue was discovered in Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump, Version 1.1, 1.5, and 1.6. The FTP server on the pump contains hardcoded credentials, which are not fully initialized. The FTP server is only accessible if the pump is configured to allow FTP connections.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSMA-17-250-02A updated 2017-12-12 cvss 3.7

Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump Vulnerabilities (Update A)

Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump 1.1, 1.6, 1.5
affected: vendor fix smiths-medical.custhelp.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

n/a Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump

Classification

Weakness

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSMA-17-250-02A
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/100665
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-12724
NVD CVE-2017-12724

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Summary