Access Restriction Bypass Affecting bluez/bluez package, versions [,5.51)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BLUEZBLUEZ-2369243
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-10910  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bluez/bluez to version 5.51 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A bug in Bluez may allow for the Bluetooth Discoverable state being set to on when no Bluetooth agent is registered with the system. This situation could lead to the unauthorized pairing of certain Bluetooth devices without any form of authentication. Versions before bluez 5.51 are vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1