Privilege Escalation Affecting bluez/bluez package, versions [,5.54)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BLUEZBLUEZ-2369244
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-0556  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bluez/bluez to version 5.54 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Improper access control in subsystem for BlueZ before version 5.54 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and denial of service via adjacent access

CVSS Scores

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