CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12857
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-459
Description
Caching of GATT characteristic values (TempID) in COVIDSafe v1.0.15 and v1.0.16 allows a remote attacker to long-term re-identify an Android device running COVIDSafe.
Affected configurations
• health covidsafe (< 1.0.17)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness
References
- https://covidsafe.watch/issue-register/cve-2020-12857-tempid-identifier-was-static Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5a5ersKBH6eG362atALrzuXo3zuZ70qrGomWVEC27U/edit?usp=sharing Third Party Advisory
- https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/covidsafe-app Product, Vendor Advisory
- https://covidsafe.watch/issue-register/cve-2020-12857-tempid-identifier-was-static Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5a5ersKBH6eG362atALrzuXo3zuZ70qrGomWVEC27U/edit?usp=sharing Third Party Advisory
- https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/covidsafe-app Product, Vendor Advisory