Security News > 2021 > November > NUCLEUS:13 TCP security bugs impact critical healthcare devices
Researchers today published details about a suite of 13 vulnerabilities in the Nucleus real-time operating system from Siemens that powers devices used in the medical, industrial, automotive, and aerospace sectors.
Dubbed NUCLEUS:13, the set of flaws affect the Nucleus TCP/IP stack and could be leveraged to obtain remote code execution on vulnerable devices, create a denial-of-service condition, or obtain info that could lead to damaging consequences.
The NUCLEUS:13 vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at cybersecurity company Forescout and Medigate, a firm that focuses on the security of devices for healthcare providers.
Forescout note in a blog post announcing a suite of vulnerabilities that the Nucleus RTOS "Is deployed in more than 3 billion devices" in healthcare and critical systems.
Based on the company's visibility, over 5,000 devices are running a vulnerable version of the Nucleus RTOS, most of them in the healthcare sector.
Discover and inventory devices running Nucleus using Project Memoria Detector, which uses active fingerprinting to find systems running Nucleus.
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