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CVE-2020-16228

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-16228 describes a certificate revocation bypass vulnerability affecting Philips Patient Information Center iX, PerformanceBridge Focal Point, and various IntelliVue patient monitors. The flaw allows these devices to use compromised certificates due to improper or absent revocation status checks. With a CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium), this vulnerability has an adjacent attack vector, low attack complexity, and requires high privileges, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts, and low availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
b.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:philips:patient_information_center_ix:b.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
c.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:philips:patient_information_center_ix:c.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
c.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:philips:patient_information_center_ix:c.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
a.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:philips:performancebridge_focal_point:a.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:intellivue_mp2-mp90_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 21st percentile among its peer group of 399 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

us-cert.cisa.gov / ics/advisories/icsma-20-254-01
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
philips.com / productsecurity