$ cve CVE-2020-15238 JSON

CVE-2020-15238 EXPLOIT

7.1

HIGH · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 4.6% (pctl 91)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager. In Blueman before 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.

Scoring

CVSS	7.1 (HIGH, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
EPSS	4.59% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-74
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2020-10-27
Last modified	2026-06-17

Affected (3)

Vendor	Product
blueman project	blueman
debian	debian linux
fedoraproject	fedora

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Blueman < 2.1.4 - Local Privilege Escalation	2020-10-28

References

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