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A proposed class action accuses University Hospitals of negligence after an October 22 cyberattack that took its MyChart portal offline; the Cleveland patient's suit, filed October 28, claims more than a million records were exposed, a number University Hospitals has not confirmed. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack October 26 that diverted ambulances for about two hours; the BYOD extortion group claims it compromised 36,000 systems, a figure UNM has not confirmed. Philips updated its Node2Shell advisory October 27 for CVE-2026-111497, the Node.js Brotli decoder flaw it first flagged October 26 against PIC iX 4.x; the advisory still names no impacted products or fixed version. Philips updated its PHP2Shell advisory October 27 for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, adding five more affected products including IntelliSpace Portal V12 and Philips Axon to the seven already listed. NorthShore Health Centers disclosed a data breach to patients October 27, one of several Midwest provider notifications issued that week. Denver Health Medical Plan notified more than 238,000 members October 26 about a vendor-related data incident. A proposed class action accuses University Hospitals of negligence after an October 22 cyberattack that took its MyChart portal offline; the Cleveland patient's suit, filed October 28, claims more than a million records were exposed, a number University Hospitals has not confirmed. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack October 26 that diverted ambulances for about two hours; the BYOD extortion group claims it compromised 36,000 systems, a figure UNM has not confirmed. Philips updated its Node2Shell advisory October 27 for CVE-2026-111497, the Node.js Brotli decoder flaw it first flagged October 26 against PIC iX 4.x; the advisory still names no impacted products or fixed version. Philips updated its PHP2Shell advisory October 27 for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, adding five more affected products including IntelliSpace Portal V12 and Philips Axon to the seven already listed. NorthShore Health Centers disclosed a data breach to patients October 27, one of several Midwest provider notifications issued that week. Denver Health Medical Plan notified more than 238,000 members October 26 about a vendor-related data incident.
Saturday, October 31, 2026 Issue #499  ·  Est. 2025
Independent brief for device makers
Manufacturers // Intuitive // Products

da Vinci SP Surgical System

System, Surgical, Computer Controlled Instrument. Attributes come from Intuitive's own public documentation for this product.

Attributes

Signals
Patient or study database User accounts Therapy delivery Cloud connectivity Wired network
Properties (MITRE EMB3D)
PID-31 Application-level software is present and running on the device PID-332 Device includes authenticated services PID-41 Device exposes remote network services
Attributes: component types
CPU Cloud Service Display Generic Application Local Service

Matched threat intel

6

Advisories in our coverage that share an attribute with this product. A shared attribute is a lead, not a finding. The status column shows only what Intuitive has said.

AdvisoryDateSharedIntuitive status
Philips Tasy EMR HTML5 has two SQL injection flaws that expose patient dataNov 4, 2021Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
Compounding software that did not encrypt its database traffic by defaultMay 15, 2026Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
BD Alaris Infusion Central leaves a recoverable database password after installationFeb 16, 2023Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-329No feedback feed from manufacturer
BD Pyxis products may still run on shared default operating system credentialsMay 31, 2022Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-329No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips PIC iX and Efficia CM Series carry a hard-coded key and weak cryptoNov 18, 2021Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-329No feedback feed from manufacturer
Baxter PrismaFlex and PrisMax send treatment data to EMR systems without encryption or authenticationJun 18, 2020Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-328No feedback feed from manufacturer

Threats and weaknesses in matched advisories

MITRE EMB3D threats
TID-221 Authentication Bypass By Message Replay TID-311 Default Credentials TID-317 Predictable Cryptographic Key TID-320 SQL Injection TID-328 Hardcoded Credentials TID-329 Improper Password Storage TID-404 Remotely Triggerable Deadlock/DoS TID-406 Unauthorized Messages or Connections TID-408 Unencrypted Sensitive Data Communication TID-411 Weak/Insecure Cryptographic Protocol
CWE weaknesses
CWE-1392 Use of Default Credentials CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort