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high 8.8

CVE-2022-39176 json

BlueZ before 5.59 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information because profiles/audio/avrcp.c does not validate pa…

published 2022-09-02 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-41721

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

BlueZ before 5.59 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information because profiles/audio/avrcp.c does not validate params_len.

Patch / fix

  • bluez bluez 5.59
  • bluez Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.61-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39176

  • bluez Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.48-0ubuntu3.9
  • bluez Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.53-0ubuntu3.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39176

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • bluez SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Real Time 15 SP3 +6 more 5.55-150300.3.19.1
  • bluez SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +6 more 5.13-5.36.1
  • bluez SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS +1 more 5.48-150200.13.22.1
  • bluez SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS +1 more 5.48-150000.5.46.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0168-1SUSE-SU-2023:0166-1SUSE-SU-2023:0156-1SUSE-SU-2023:0155-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-39176 updated cvss 8.8

bluez: BlueZ allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information because profiles/audio/avrcp.c does not validate params_len

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bluez, bluez-alsa, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-compat, bluez-gstreamer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bluez, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-hid2hci
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 bluez, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-obexd, bluez-hid2hci Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 bluez, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-obexd
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Sources

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