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Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

CVE-2020-10135

Medium
4.8/10

Summary

Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication in Bluetooth BR/EDR Core Specification v5.2 and earlier may allow an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials via adjacent access. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker could impersonate a Bluetooth BR/EDR master or slave to pair with a previously paired remote device to successfully complete the authentication procedure without knowing the link key.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

This attack-focused weakness is caused by improperly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published