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Vulnerability

Philips lists IntelliSpace ECG and Trace Master Vue under Chrome V8 CVE-2025-6554

MedDevice Cyber Staff · Jul 15 · 2 min read · Via Philips product security advisories 2025

Philips posted a notice on July 15, 2025 about CVE-2025-6554, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine in Google Chrome. Device Management Dashboard A.02.01, IntelliSpace ECG Management System B.02.07 and Trace Master Vue 3.6 are listed.

Type confusion in V8 is a memory corruption bug reached by loading a crafted page. Exposure depends on what the ECG host can browse to.

Lock the browser on these hosts to the ECG application and the risk drops to near nothing while the patch is scheduled.

Philips posted a second Chrome notice for the same three products a week later.

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Remediation Desk

For ProvidersOperators, hospitals, and clinical engineering

Apply the Philips validated Chrome update for CVE-2025-6554 on the listed ECG hosts and lock the browser to the application's own URLs.

Patch Chrome. Apply the update through Philips service on each listed product.
Lock the browser. Allow only the ECG application URLs on these hosts.
Track the follow-on. Plan for the related July 22, 2025 notice on CVE-2025-6558 in the same window.

For Device ManufacturersAm I affected, and how to fix the class

Am I affected?

This class applies to devices with the signals and properties below. Check them against your product to gauge exposure.

Required

Off-the-shelf software

Contributing

Web interface Physiological waveform processing

Fix the class in your product

The advisory is not for a bug you wrote; it is in a component you embed. As the maker, pin dependencies to fixed versions, generate an SBOM on every build including transitive components, and gate the pipeline on known-vulnerable components so an advisory maps to your products automatically.

Pin and inventory. Exact versions, and a CycloneDX or SPDX SBOM as a build artifact including transitive deps.
Gate on advisories. A CI scan fails a release carrying a component with a known advisory.
Own the field patch path. Know how you deliver a dependency or platform patch to fielded devices before you need it.

Mapped EMB3D mitigations

Questions & Answers

What is CVE-2025-6554 in Google Chrome?

CVE-2025-6554 is a type confusion vulnerability in Chrome's V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Philips listed Device Management Dashboard A.02.01, IntelliSpace ECG Management System B.02.07 and Trace Master Vue 3.6 on July 15, 2025.

Is Trace Master Vue affected by CVE-2025-6554?

Philips listed Trace Master Vue 3.6 in its July 15, 2025 notice on the Chrome V8 type confusion flaw CVE-2025-6554.

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