CVE-2020-12856 describes a critical vulnerability in OpenTrace, impacting COVIDSafe, TraceTogether, ABTraceTogether, and other applications across iOS and Android. The flaw stems from how Bluetooth is utilized, enabling remote attackers to perform long-term re-identification attacks and potentially other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:alberta:abtracetogether:-:*:*:*:*:android:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:alberta:abtracetogether:-:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* | ||
<= 1.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:health:covidsafe:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:health:covidsafe:-:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tracetogether:tracetogether:-:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.