Buffer overflow in Contec Health Cms8000 Patient Monitor

CVE-2024-12248

Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds write, which could allow an attacker to send specially formatted UDP requests in order to write arbitrary data. This could result in remote code execution.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2024-12248: held from 0.013 to 0.013.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: -0.000

Affected products

  • Contec Health Cms8000 Patient Monitor — versions Firmware version smart3250-2.6.27-wlan2.1.7.cramfs, Firmware version CMS7.820.075.08/0.74(0.75), Firmware version CMS7.820.120.01/0.93(0.95)

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12248?
CVE-2024-12248 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Contec Health Cms8000 Patient Monitor, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-01-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-12248?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12248 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.