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CVSSv3

CVE-2020-15238

Published: 27/10/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager. In Blueman prior to 2.1.4, the DhcpClient method of the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism is prone to an argument injection vulnerability. The impact highly depends on the system configuration. If Polkit-1 is disabled and for versions lower than 2.0.6, any local user can possibly exploit this. If Polkit-1 is enabled for version 2.0.6 and later, a possible attacker needs to be allowed to use the `org.blueman.dhcp.client` action. That is limited to users in the wheel group in the shipped rules file that do have the privileges anyway. On systems with ISC DHCP client (dhclient), attackers can pass arguments to `ip link` with the interface name that can e.g. be used to bring down an interface or add an arbitrary XDP/BPF program. On systems with dhcpcd and without ISC DHCP client, attackers can even run arbitrary scripts by passing `-c/path/to/script` as an interface name. Patches are included in 2.1.4 and master that change the DhcpClient D-Bus method(s) to accept BlueZ network object paths instead of network interface names. A backport to 2.0(.8) is also available. As a workaround, make sure that Polkit-1-support is enabled and limit privileges for the `org.blueman.dhcp.client` action to users that are able to run arbitrary commands as root anyway in /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/blueman.rules.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #973718 blueman: CVE-2020-15238 Package: src:blueman; Maintainer for src:blueman is Christopher Schramm <debian@cschrammeu>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 21:09:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, upstream Found in versions blueman/213-2, ...
Vaisha Bernard discovered that Blueman, a graphical bluetooth manager performed insufficient validation on a D-Bus interface, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 208-1+deb10u1 We recommend that you upgrade your blueman packages For the deta ...
In Blueman before 214, the DhcpClient method of the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism is prone to an argument injection vulnerability The impact highly depends on the system configuration If Polkit-1 is disabled and for versions lower than 206, any local user can possibly exploit this If Polkit-1 is enabled for version 206 and later, a ...

Exploits

Blueman versions prior to 214 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability that achieves root ...