CVE-2006-6899

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

hidd in BlueZ (bluez-utils) before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain control of the (1) Mouse and (2) Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a certain configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, operating as a server, aka HidAttack.

Affected products

BlueZ Project Bluez: through 2.24

References

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006-mediawiki//images/f/fb/23c3_Bluetooh_revisited.pdf
http://mulliner.org/bluetooth/hidattack.php
http://osvdb.org/32830
http://secunia.com/advisories/23747
http://secunia.com/advisories/23798
http://secunia.com/advisories/23879
http://secunia.com/advisories/25264
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:014
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0065.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455889/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22076
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-413-1

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