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CVE-2025-15653: Dräger Zeus IE Anesthesia Workstation USB Interface Privilege Escalation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-02 · updated 2026-07-22
• Weakness: CWE-668

Description

Dräger Zeus Infinity Empowered (Zeus IE) and Zeus RS C500 anesthesia workstations contain a local security vulnerability that allows unauthorized individuals with physical access to compromise software integrity via USB interface manipulation. Attackers can exploit the unprotected USB interfaces to impair therapy functions, manipulate device-processed data, or leverage the device as a pivot point for broader network-based attacks when connected to a network or Dräger Service Connect.

Affected products

• Dräger Zeus IE: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5
• Dräger Zeus RS C500: before 1.0.9 — fixed in 1.0.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dräger Zeus IE 1.0.5; Dräger Zeus RS C500 1.0.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://static.draeger.com/security/download/Product-Security-Advisory-25-349-Zeus.pdf
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dr-ger-zeus-ie-anesthesia-workstation-usb-interface-privilege-escalation

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