CVE-2005-2547

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

security.c in hcid for BlueZ 2.16, 2.17, and 2.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the Bluetooth device name when invoking the PIN helper.

Affected products

BlueZ Project Bluez: 2.18

References

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluez/utils/hcid/security.c?r1=1.31&r2=1.34
http://secunia.com/advisories/16453
http://secunia.com/advisories/16476
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7893206&forum_id=1881
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-782
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-09.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14572
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101557
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluez/utils/hcid/security.c?r1=1.31&r2=1.34
http://secunia.com/advisories/16453
http://secunia.com/advisories/16476
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7893206&forum_id=1881

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