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CVE-2020-8988

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-330

Description

The Voatz application 2020-01-01 for Android allows only 100 million different PINs, which makes it easier for attackers (after using root access to make a copy of the local database) to discover login credentials and voting history via an offline brute-force approach.

Affected products

• Voatz: 2020-01-01

References

• https://blog.voatz.com/?p=1209
• https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SecurityAnalysisOfVoatz_Public.pdf
• https://blog.voatz.com/?p=1209
• https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SecurityAnalysisOfVoatz_Public.pdf

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