CVE-2020-12858: Health Covidsafe

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Non-reinitialisation of random data in the advertising payload in COVIDSafe v1.0.15 and v1.0.16 allows a remote attacker to re-identify Android devices running COVIDSafe by scanning for their advertising beacons.

Affected products

  • Health Covidsafe: before 1.0.17 (fixed in 1.0.17)

Published 2020-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.