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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-0683

Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published Jan 20, 2026 · catalog updated Jan 20, 2026 · Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor

Patch now

CVE-2025-0683 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.79%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor

In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor transmits plain-text patient data to a hard-coded public IP address when a patient is hooked up to the monitor. This could lead to a leakage of confidential patient data to any device with that IP address or an attacker in a machine-in-the-middle scenario.

Are you affected?

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  • vendor Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitorversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-0683

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-0683 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.79%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jan 20, 2026 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor transmits plain-text patient data to a hard-coded public IP address when a patient is hooked up to the monitor. This could lead to a leakage of confidential patient data to any device with that IP address or an attacker in a machine-in-the-middle scenario.

  2. Jan 20, 2026 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-0683

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-0683

    30-day exploitation probability 0.8%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-0683

    In its default configuration, Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor transmits plain-text patient data to a hard-coded public IP address when a patient is hooked up to the monitor. This could lead to a leakage of confidential patient data to any device with that IP address or an a

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.