CVE-2020-12045 is a critical vulnerability affecting Baxter Spectrum Wireless Battery Modules (WBM) when used with Spectrum v8.x infusion pumps. The vulnerability stems from a Telnet service running on port 1023 with hard-coded credentials, allowing unauthorized access. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this flaw presents a severe risk, as it is network-exploitable with low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness, though no public exploit code is currently available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:baxter:sigma_spectrum_infusion_system_firmware:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.