Instruments with Illumina Universal Copy Service v2.x are vulnerable due to binding to an unrestricted IP address. An unauthenticated malicious actor could use UCS to listen on all IP addresses, including those capable of accepting remote communications.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1968
• https://support.illumina.com/downloads/illumina-universal-copy-service-1-0.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-23-117-01