Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This CVE affects specified IntelliVue patient monitors and Avalon fetal/maternal monitors. A network service can mishandle data from another device on the same subnet, causing a stack overflow. In clinical environments, the main concern is disruption or unsafe device behavior if vulnerable monitors are reachable by untrusted systems.
Executive priority
Treat this as a high-priority medical-device exposure review, especially in hospitals with flat clinical networks. The evidence does not prove internet exposure or active exploitation, but same-subnet attacks against patient-monitoring equipment can create operational risk.
Technical view
Affected monitor revisions expose an echo service that copies attacker-supplied data to the stack without boundary checks. The CVE maps to CWE-121. The source evidence states same-subnet reachability is required, but does not provide CVSS, exploit status, patch details, or confirmed impact beyond stack overflow.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely where affected monitors share a subnet with general-purpose workstations, vendor access systems, unmanaged devices, or other untrusted hosts. Segmented biomedical networks reduce practical reachability.
Exploitation context
The provided sources do not indicate active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked KEV. The described prerequisite is same-subnet network access to the affected monitor service.
Researcher notes
Focus validation on asset identification, software revision mapping, and network adjacency. The source bundle supports a stack overflow in an exposed echo service, but does not support claims of remote code execution, public exploits, or specific patches.
Mitigation direction
- Check the ICS-CERT advisory and vendor guidance for supported remediation or upgrade paths.
- Identify affected IntelliVue and Avalon models and software revisions in clinical networks.
- Restrict same-subnet access to monitor networks to trusted biomedical systems only.
- Review network segmentation between patient-monitoring devices and enterprise endpoints.
- Apply vendor-approved updates or compensating controls when confirmed available.
Validation and detection
- Inventory monitor model names and software revisions against the affected list.
- Confirm whether vulnerable monitors are reachable from non-biomedical systems on the same subnet.
- Review firewall, VLAN, and access-control rules around patient-monitor networks.
- Check security advisories for any later vendor remediation notes or replacement guidance.
- Document any devices requiring compensating controls until vendor guidance is applied.
Public sources used
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- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-156-01CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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CWE details
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Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Stack-based Buffer Overflow represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.