CVE-2023-51596

bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 3, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found within the handling of the Phone Book Access profile in BlueZ. In certain conditions, a network-adjacent attacker can execute arbitrary code on affected installations of BlueZ. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must connect to a malicious Bluetooth device.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow