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

Published May 19, 2020

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.

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Remediation

Red Hat mitigation

Use the Out of Band (OOB) pairing mechanism if possible. Disabling Bluetooth may be a suitable alternative for some environments, please refer to the Red Hat knowledgebase solution [1] for how to disable Bluetooth in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2682931

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner certcc
Published May 19, 2020
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Mar 5, 2020
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date May 18, 2020