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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2020-10134 EUVD-2020-2597GHSA-4fx5-wvjj-h2jp

Bluetooth devices supporting LE and specific BR/EDR implementations are vulnerable to method confusion attacks

Published May 19, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by certcc

Description

Pairing in Bluetooth® Core v5.2 and earlier may permit an unauthenticated attacker to acquire credentials with two pairing devices via adjacent access when the unauthenticated user initiates different pairing methods in each peer device and an end-user erroneously completes both pairing procedures with the MITM using the confirmation number of one peer as the passkey of the other. An adjacent, unauthenticated attacker could be able to initiate any Bluetooth operation on either attacked device exposed by the enabled Bluetooth profiles. This exposure may be limited when the user must authorize certain access explicitly, but so long as a user assumes that it is the intended remote device requesting permissions, device-local protections may be weakened.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Bluetooth LE 5.2 – ≤ 5.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS bluez No fix yet —

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