CVE-2024-48967: Baxter LIFE2000 Ventilation System

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ventilator and the Service PC lack sufficient audit logging capabilities to allow for detection of malicious activity and subsequent forensic examination. An attacker with access to the ventilator and/or the Service PC could, without detection, make unauthorized changes to ventilator settings that result in unauthorized disclosure of information and/or have unintended impacts on device performance.

Affected products

• Baxter LIFE2000 Ventilation System: up to and including 06.08.00.00
• Baxter LIFE2000 Ventilator Firmware: before 6.08.00.00 (fixed in 6.08.00.00)

Published 2024-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.