CVE-2017-1000251The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel (BlueZ), starting at the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 and up to and including 4.13.1, are…
- 8.0HighCVSS base score
- 16.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel (BlueZ), starting at the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 and up to and including 4.13.1, are vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration responses resulting in Remote code execution in kernel space.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Linux Kernel < 4.13.1 - BlueTooth Buffer Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42762dos, linuxpublished 21 Sept 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 42762 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.2% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References21
- RHSA-2017:2732 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 42762 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2705 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2683 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2704 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2682 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/blueborne (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.armis.com/blueborne (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1039373 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2731 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2706 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_52_BlueBorne (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f2fcfcd670257236ebf2088bbdf26f6a8ef459fe (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100809 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#240311 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2681 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2679 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2680 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2707 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-1512 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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