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Vulnerability

Philips lists PIC iX in July 2024 CrowdStrike Windows outage notice

MedDevice Cyber Staff · Jul 19 · 2 min read · Via Philips product security advisories 2024

On July 19, 2024, Philips posted a notice on the worldwide outage on Windows systems, triggered unintentionally by an update CrowdStrike pushed out. The listed product is PIC iX, the central station for Philips patient monitoring.

No attacker was involved. A third-party security agent with kernel access shipped a bad update, and Windows hosts that ran it failed to boot. On a central monitoring station, the clinical cost of that is the same as an attack: no central view of patient alarms until the host is recovered.

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Remediation Desk

For ProvidersOperators, hospitals, and clinical engineering

Recover affected PIC iX hosts with Philips service and confirm the third-party agent version before returning them to clinical use. Agents with kernel access on monitoring hosts need staged rollout, not automatic updates.

Recover with Philips. Restore affected PIC iX hosts under Philips service guidance.
Stage agent updates. Hold third-party security agent updates for a test ring before they reach clinical monitoring hosts.
Plan the downtime. Keep a documented fallback for central monitoring when the station is down.

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.

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Named operating system Off-the-shelf software

Contributing

Hospital network

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.

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Questions & Answers

Was Philips PIC iX affected by the CrowdStrike outage?

Philips listed PIC iX in a July 19, 2024 notice on the worldwide Windows outage triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update.

What caused the July 2024 Windows outage that hit Philips PIC iX?

Philips said on July 19, 2024 that the outage was triggered unintentionally by an update CrowdStrike pushed out to Windows systems, including those running PIC iX.

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