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CVE-2017-12716 json

Abbott Laboratories Accent and Anthem pacemakers manufactured prior to Aug 28, 2017 transmit unencrypted patient information via RF communi…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-4255

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • 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

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSMA-17-241-01 updated cvss 3.1

ICSMA-17-241-01_Abbott Laboratories ' Accent/Anthem, Accent MRI, Assurity/Allure, and Assurity MRI Pacemaker Vulnerabilities

  • Abbott Laboratories Accent MRI < august 28 Abbott Laboratories Accent/Anthem < august 28 Abbott Laboratories Assurity MRI < august 28 Abbott Laboratories Assurity/Allure < august 28
    affected: mitigation

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Abbott Laboratories Accent and Anthem

Classification

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

References

Sources

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