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High VDE-2022-021 6 CVEs

Pepperl+Fuchs: RSM-EX devices - Multiple Bluetooth vulnerabilities

Published May 16, 2022 · Updated May 22, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the utilized Bluetooth component.
For more information see: https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/799380

Details

Impact
Pepperl+Fuchs analyzed and identified affected devices.

An unauthorized attacker could gain access to the audio communication and listen to the conversation via Bluetooth.
This attack can only be carried out at close range and is limited by the radio range of Bluetooth.

The impact of the vulnerabilities on the affected device may result in

information disclosure

Remediation
The device will play a confirmation sound when a Bluetooth connection is successfully established and a status LED labeled BT indicates that a Bluetooth connection is active.
This can be used to detect an unauthenticated connection.

Vulnerabilities 6

Revision history

  1. #2

    Fix: quotation mark

  2. #1

    initial revision

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