CVE-2017-12716: Abbott Accent Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Abbott Accent Firmware: before f0b.0e.7e (fixed in f0b.0e.7e)
• Abbott Accent Mri Firmware: before f10.08.6c (fixed in f10.08.6c)
• Abbott Accent St Firmware: before f10.08.6c (fixed in f10.08.6c)
• Abbott Anthem Firmware: before f0b.0e.7e (fixed in f0b.0e.7e)

Published 2018-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.