GLSA-202401-03 : BlueZ: Privilege Escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187655

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-03 (BlueZ: Privilege Escalation)

- Bluetooth HID Hosts in BlueZ may permit an unauthenticated Peripheral role HID Device to initiate and establish an encrypted connection, and accept HID keyboard reports, potentially permitting injection of HID messages when no user interaction has occurred in the Central role to authorize such access. An example affected package is bluez 5.64-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04LTS. NOTE: in some cases, a CVE-2020-0556 mitigation would have already addressed this Bluetooth HID Hosts issue. (CVE-2023-45866)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All BlueZ users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-wireless/bluez-5.70-r1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-03

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919383

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187655

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202401-03.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/5/2024

Updated: 1/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45866

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:bluez, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45866