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On Fitbit activity-tracker devices, certain addresses never change

Published Jul 15, 2019

Description

On Fitbit activity-tracker devices, certain addresses never change. According to the popets-2019-0036.pdf document, this leads to "permanent trackability" and "considerable privacy concerns" without a user-accessible anonymization feature. The devices, such as Charge 2, transmit Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertising packets with a TxAdd flag indicating random addresses, but the addresses remain constant. If devices come within BLE range at one or more locations where an adversary has set up passive sniffing, the adversary can determine whether the same device has entered one of these locations.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 15, 2019
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 15, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a