CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12716

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-04-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-311, CWE-319

Description

Abbott Laboratories Accent and Anthem pacemakers manufactured prior to Aug 28, 2017 transmit unencrypted patient information via RF communications to programmers and home monitoring units. Additionally, the Accent and Anthem pacemakers store the optional patient information without encryption. CVSS v3 base score: 3.1, CVSS vector string: AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. Abbott has developed a firmware update to help mitigate the identified vulnerabilities.

Affected configurations

• abbott accent firmware (< f0b.0e.7e) • abbott anthem firmware (< f0b.0e.7e) • abbott accent mri firmware (< f10.08.6c) • abbott accent st firmware (< f10.08.6c)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

References