B. Braun SpaceCom, Battery Pack SP with Wi-Fi, and Data module compactplus

published 2022-04-14 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-8204

cvss: 6.7; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the configuration import mechanism of the B. Braun Melsungen AG SpaceCom Version L81/U61 and earlier, and the Data module compactplus Versions A10 and A11 allows attackers with command line access to the underlying Linux system to escalate privileges to the root user.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-20-296-02 updated 2020-10-22 cvss 6.7

B. Braun SpaceCom, Battery Pack SP with Wi-Fi, and Data module compactplus

B. Braun Medical Battery pack with Wi-Fi <= U61, <= L81 B. Braun Medical Data module compactplus A10, A11 B. Braun Medical SpaceCom <= U61, <= L81
affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Wireless networks should be implemented using industry standard encryption and should be equipped with intrusion detection systems (IDS) and/or intrusion prevention systems (IPS).” bbraun.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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

B. Braun Melsungen AG SpaceCom
B. Braun Melsungen AG Battery pack with Wi-Fi
B. Braun Melsungen AG Data module compactplus

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsma-20-296-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
bbraun.com /en/products-and-therapies/services/b-braun-vulnerability-disclosure-policy/security-advisory.html
broken-link

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-16238
NVD CVE-2020-16238

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Summary