Health IT Security October 27, 2023
SolarWinds recently published security fixes for its Access Rights Manager, addressing eight cybersecurity vulnerabilities that pose a threat to healthcare.
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) urged the sector to prioritize monitoring and upgrading SolarWinds systems following a series of cybersecurity vulnerability disclosures.
SolarWinds recently released security fixes for eight vulnerabilities found in its Access Rights Manager (ARM). The ARM software is “designed to help security administrators provision, deprovision, manage, and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files,” HC3 noted.
Three of the eight vulnerabilities were rated as critical and could lead to remote code execution, enabling hackers to obtain the highest level of privileges.
HC3 strongly encouraged healthcare organizations to take note of these vulnerabilities “due...