BD Alaris PC Unit, Model 8015, Versions 9.33.1 and earlier and BD Alaris Systems Manager, Versions 4.33 and earlier The affected products a…

published 2020-11-13 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-17856

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.7%; EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits: 0; none known

BD Alaris PC Unit, Model 8015, Versions 9.33.1 and earlier and BD Alaris Systems Manager, Versions 4.33 and earlier The affected products are vulnerable to a network session authentication vulnerability within the authentication process between specified versions of the BD Alaris PC Unit and the BD Alaris Systems Manager. If exploited, an attacker could perform a denial-of-service attack on the BD Alaris PC Unit by modifying the configuration headers of data in transit. A denial-of-service attack could lead to a drop in the wireless capability of the BD Alaris PC Unit, resulting in manual operation of the PC Unit.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-20-317-01 updated 2020-11-12 cvss 6.5

BD Alaris 8015 PC Unit and BD Alaris Systems Manager

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris PC Unit Model 8015 <= 9.33.1 Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris Systems Manager <= 4.33
affected: vendor fix go.bd.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

1.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

n/a BD Alaris PC Unit and BD Alaris Systems Manager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

us-cert.cisa.gov /ics/advisories/icsma-20-317-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-25165
NVD CVE-2020-25165

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Summary