Healthcare data at risk due to NextGen Mirth Connect bug

Healthcare organizations leveraging NextGen HealthCare's open source data integration solution Mirth Connect, which was touted as the "Swiss Army knife of healthcare integration" for enabling standardized data exchange and communications across various systems, have been urged to immediately apply updates to remediate a critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-43208, which could be exploited to facilitate initial systems access or sensitive data compromise, The Hacker News reports.

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