# CVE-2020-12717: 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 contac

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2020-05-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

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

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