CVE-2020-12717

Description

The COVIDSafe (Australia) app 1.0 and 1.1 for iOS allows a remote attacker to crash the app, and consequently interfere with COVID-19 contact tracing, via a Bluetooth advertisement containing manufacturer data that is too short. This occurs because of an erroneous OpenTrace manuData.subdata call. The ABTraceTogether (Alberta), ProteGO (Poland), and TraceTogether (Singapore) apps were also affected.

6.5

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 3.1 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 2.20% Top 20%

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://medium.com/%40wabz/covidsafe-ios-vulnerability-cve-2020-12717-30dc003f9708

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-12717?: CVE-2020-12717 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-12717?: To fix CVE-2020-12717, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-12717 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2020-12717 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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