CVE-2020-6812

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

The first time AirPods are connected to an iPhone, they become named after the user's name by default (e.g. Jane Doe's AirPods.) Websites with camera or microphone permission are able to enumerate device names, disclosing the user's name. To resolve this issue, Firefox added a special case that renames devices containing the substring 'AirPods' to simply 'AirPods'. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.6, Firefox < 74, Firefox < ESR68.6, and Firefox ESR < 68.6.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6812

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6812.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-8

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-11

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed68.6.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed74.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed68.6.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed68.6.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed68.6.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed68.6.0esr-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.