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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 // Johnson & Johnson MedTech // Products

VELYS Hip Navigation

Automated Radiological Image Processing Software. Attributes come from Johnson & Johnson MedTech's own public documentation for this product.

Attributes

Signals
File import Handles patient data DICOM or image parsing Named operating system
Properties (MITRE EMB3D)
PID-23 Device includes OS/kernel PID-31 Application-level software is present and running on the device PID-33 Device includes interactive applications, services, or user interfaces
Attributes: component types
Generic Application Local Application Operating System User Interface
Attributes: assets
Model Data Patient Data
Attributes: dataflows
X-ray or fluoroscopy images to machine learning model (outputs default landmark location to annotation tool)

Matched threat intel

8

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 Johnson & Johnson MedTech has said.

AdvisoryDateSharedJohnson & Johnson MedTech status
Cepheid GeneXpert Xpress 6.4a ships without Windows speculative execution mitigationsMar 11, 2026Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
A legacy cardiology system, end-of-service since 2014, recalled for securityJun 10, 2025Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
Thermo Fisher Xcalibur and Foundation driver packages allow local privilege escalationJan 22, 2025Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
B. Braun OnlineSuite AP 3.0 and earlier allows unauthenticated file upload and DLL hijackingOct 22, 2020Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
Capsule Technologies SmartLinx Neuron 2 kiosk escapes to admin with a USB keyboardJul 14, 2020Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
GE Healthcare ultrasound systems let a local user escape Kiosk Mode to the operating systemFeb 18, 2020Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
Canon Medical holds off on Meltdown and Spectre patches for its diagnostic imaging equipmentJan 15, 2018Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips issues WannaCry guidance naming IntelliSpace Portal Workstation IX and Event ManagementMay 15, 2017Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-23No feedback feed from manufacturer

Threats and weaknesses in matched advisories

MITRE EMB3D threats
TID-103 Microarchitectural Side Channels TID-204 Untrusted Programs Can Access Privileged OS Functions TID-205 Existing OS Tools Maliciously Used for Device Manipulation TID-210 Device Vulnerabilities Unpatchable TID-219 OS/Kernel Privilege Escalation TID-222 Critical System Service May Be Disabled TID-305 Program Executes Dangerous System Calls TID-310 Remotely Accessible Unauthenticated Services TID-311 Default Credentials TID-323 Path Traversal
CWE weaknesses
CWE-1104 Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components CWE-1188 Insecure Default Initialization of Resource CWE-1329 Reliance on Component That is Not Updateable CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials