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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2024-48971 json

Clinician Password and Serial Number Clinician Password are hard-coded in Life2000 Ventilator

published 2024-11-14 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-43156

cvss
9.3
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 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Clinician Password and Serial Number Clinician Password are hard-coded into the ventilator in plaintext form. This could allow an attacker to obtain the password off the ventilator and use it to gain unauthorized access to the device, with clinician privileges.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-24-319-01 updated cvss 9.3

Baxter Life2000 Ventilation System

  • Baxter Life2000 Ventilation System <=06.08.00.00
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Baxter plans to issue a follow-up announcement in Q2 2025 regarding the Life2000 vulnerabilities described in this disclosure.” baxter.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
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Baxter Life2000 Ventilation System
  • baxter life2000_ventilator_firmware

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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