Contec Health CMS8000

published 2022-09-13 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-40674

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits: 0; none known

Multiple globally default credentials exist across all CMS8000 devices, that once exposed, allow a threat actor with momentary physical access to gain privileged access to any device. Privileged credential access enables the extraction of sensitive patient information or modification of device parameters

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-22-244-01 updated 2025-01-30 cvss 4.3

Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor (Update A)

Contec Health CMS8000 CONTEC ICU CCU Vital Signs Patient Monitor <=smart3250-2.6.27-wlan2.1.7.cramfs, <=CMS7.820.075.08/0.740.75, <=CMS7.820.120.01/0.930.95
affected: mitigation “Per FDA recommendation, CISA recommends users remove any Contec CMS8000 devices from their networks.”

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: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Contec Health CMS8000 CONTEC ICU CCU Vital Signs Patient Monitor

Classification

Weakness

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsma-22-244-01
mitigation, third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-38069
NVD CVE-2022-38069

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Summary