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CISA warns about cyber flaw in Philips MRI monitoring software

April 1, 2022

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The Philips e-Alert uses sensors to monitor and rapidly respond to potential issues with MRI machines, including cooled water supply, helium level and humidity, which are critical to the proper performance of the medical imaging systems. However, if the vulnerability is successfully exploited, the software does not perform any authentication for critical system functionality.

Philips on Tuesday issued its own security advisory, stating that the company “has identified one potential vulnerability that may allow an attacker within the same subnet to impact system availability” and that the vulnerability “may allow attackers of low skill to issue an unauthenticated remote shutdown command, leading to a denial of service of the e-Alert hardware solution.”

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