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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 // Varian // Products

ARIA Radiation Therapy Management

Accelerator, Linear, Medical. Attributes come from Varian's own public documentation for this product.

Attributes

Signals
Patient or study database File import User accounts Handles patient data Wired network DICOM or image parsing Hospital network
Properties (MITRE EMB3D)
PID-31 Application-level software is present and running on the device PID-332 Device includes authenticated services PID-34 Device stores logs of application events and information PID-41 Device exposes remote network services
Platform
Database engine: SQL Server 2019 .NET
Attributes: materials
.NET 4.8 SQL Server 2019
Attributes: component types
API Cloud Service Display Firmware Generic Application Local Service
Attributes: interface types
TCP TLS
Attributes: assets
Firmware Patient Data
Attributes: dataflows
Film digitizer to ARIA Radiation Therapy Management (image import) Network DICOM source to ARIA Radiation Therapy Management (image import)

Matched threat intel

27

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 Varian has said.

AdvisoryDateSharedVarian status
A hard-coded VNC password on a bioreactor, base score 9.8May 26, 2026Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
Login credentials exposed on the workstation in a GE imaging viewerMar 16, 2026Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
Missing authentication on a DNA sequencer control planeOct 21, 2025Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
BD Synapsys sessions did not expire, risking changes to patient dataMay 31, 2022Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips Tasy EMR HTML5 has two SQL injection flaws that expose patient dataNov 4, 2021Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-332No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips DreamMapper 2.24 and earlier write attacker-useful details to log filesJul 30, 2020Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-34No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips IntelliBridge Enterprise writes plaintext EMR credentials into its transaction logsJun 11, 2020Same property (MITRE EMB3D)PID-34No feedback feed from manufacturer
A crafted JPEG inside a DICOM file overflows a viewer heapAug 6, 2026Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
MicroDicom patched, then patched again, for the same file-parser classJun 10, 2025Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Two rounds of memory-corruption bugs in one DICOM viewerMar 20, 2025Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Santesoft Sante FFT Imaging 1.4.1 has an out-of-bounds write in DCM file handlingMar 5, 2024Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
MicroDicom DICOM Viewer 2023.3 and prior overflows the heap on malicious DCM filesFeb 29, 2024Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Santesoft Sante DICOM Viewer Pro 14.0.3 out-of-bounds read triggered by a malicious DICOM fileFeb 27, 2024Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Santesoft Sante DICOM Viewer Pro has two memory corruption flaws in DICOM parsingOct 12, 2023Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Santesoft Sante FFT Imaging has an out-of-bounds read when parsing DICOM filesOct 12, 2023Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
MIM Assistant and MIM Client 7.2.10 and 7.3.3 open to XXE through DICOM RT tagsSep 19, 2023Same signalsNo feedback feed from manufacturer
Cepheid GeneXpert Xpress 6.4a ships without Windows speculative execution mitigationsMar 11, 2026Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
Hard-coded credentials and client-side auth in nuclear-medicine softwareDec 2, 2025Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
Ossur Logic mobile app shipped hard-coded credentials and a static token in its binaryDec 19, 2024Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
Two maximum-severity flaws in a ventilation systemNov 14, 2024Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-328No feedback feed from manufacturer
Hillrom Welch Allyn ELI resting electrocardiographs contain hard-coded passwordsJun 16, 2022Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
BD Pyxis products may still run on shared default operating system credentialsMay 31, 2022Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
Swisslog Translogic Nexus Control Panel ships hard-coded root passwords and unvalidated updatesAug 3, 2021Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No 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
Philips iSite and IntelliSpace PACS carry default credentials in third-party softwareNov 8, 2018Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer
Roche Accu-Chek and CoaguChek point of care handhelds expose a weakly protected service interfaceNov 6, 2018Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-226No feedback feed from manufacturer
Philips PageWriter TC cardiographs expose a hard-coded superuser password and unchecked inputAug 16, 2018Exposed to the same EMB3D threatTID-311No feedback feed from manufacturer

Threats and weaknesses in matched advisories

MITRE EMB3D threats
TID-103 Microarchitectural Side Channels TID-115 Firmware/Data Extraction via Hardware Interface TID-116 Latent Privileged Access Port TID-119 Latent Hardware Debug Port Allows Memory/Code Manipulation TID-204 Untrusted Programs Can Access Privileged OS Functions TID-205 Existing OS Tools Maliciously Used for Device Manipulation TID-211 Device Allows Unauthenticated Firmware Installation TID-213 Faulty FW/SW Update Integrity Verification TID-219 OS/Kernel Privilege Escalation TID-221 Authentication Bypass By Message Replay TID-226 Device leaks security information in logs TID-301 Applications Binaries Modified TID-303 Excessive Trust in Offboard Management/IDE Software TID-310 Remotely Accessible Unauthenticated Services TID-311 Default Credentials TID-313 Unauthenticated Session Changes Credential TID-314 Passwords Can Be Guessed Using Brute-Force Attempts TID-316 Incorrect Certificate Verification Allows Authentication Bypass TID-317 Predictable Cryptographic Key TID-320 SQL Injection TID-324 HTTP Direct Object Reference TID-327 Out of Bounds Memory Access TID-328 Hardcoded Credentials TID-329 Improper Password Storage TID-406 Unauthorized Messages or Connections TID-408 Unencrypted Sensitive Data Communication TID-411 Weak/Insecure Cryptographic Protocol
CWE weaknesses
CWE-1188 Insecure Default Initialization of Resource CWE-1191 On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read CWE-1313 Hardware Allows Activation of Test or Debug Logic at Runtime CWE-1390 Weak Authentication CWE-1392 Use of Default Credentials CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions CWE-284 Improper Access Control CWE-287 Improper Authentication CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write 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