Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris Plus medical syringe pumps (models Alaris GS, Alaris GH, Alaris CC, and Alaris TIVA) versions 2.3…

published 2018-08-23 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-6670

cvss: 9.4; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.9%; EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits: 0; none known

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris Plus medical syringe pumps (models Alaris GS, Alaris GH, Alaris CC, and Alaris TIVA) versions 2.3.6 and prior are affected by an improper authentication vulnerability where the software does not perform authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity, where it may allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to various Alaris Syringe pumps and impact the intended operation of the pump when it is connected to a terminal server via the serial port.

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSMA-18-235-01 updated 2018-08-23 cvss 9.4

BD Alaris Plus

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris CC <= 2.3.6 Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris GH <= 2.3.6 Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris GS <= 2.3.6 Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Alaris TIVA <= 2.3.6
affected: vendor fix

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Becton, Dickinson and Company Alaris GS, Alaris GH, Alaris CC, and Alaris TIVA

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

bd.com /en-us/support/product-security-and-privacy/product-security-bulletin-for-various-alaris-plus-syringe-pumps-so
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/105147
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSMA-18-235-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-14786
NVD CVE-2018-14786

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