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Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-12717 · published 14 May 2020

CVE-2020-12717: Alberta abtracetogether vulnerability

Alberta · Abtracetogether

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 3.1 Medium EPSS 1.4% · top 28.7%
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 3.3
1.4%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
4Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

4 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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

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Related vulnerabilities

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-12717), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.