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Breathe Deeply: DHS warns of Flaw in Hospital Anesthesia Machines

ID: 155755c2-b95c-5d0c-9186-064552d4e5ed

STIX ID: report--155755c2-b95c-5d0c-9186-064552d4e5ed

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2019-07-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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GE Healthcare Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia machines (versions 7100 and 7900) contain a remotely exploitable software flaw that can be abused by an attacker on the same network—via terminal servers used to connect serial medical devices—to change gas composition parameters, alter device time, and mute alarms; CyberMDX notified GE and ICS-CERT in October 2018 and GE advises using secure terminal servers, network segmentation, firewalls, and device isolation to mitigate the risk.

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