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CVE-2020-25661

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-843

Description

A Red Hat only CVE-2020-12351 regression issue was found in the way the Linux kernel's Bluetooth implementation handled L2CAP packets with A2MP CID. This flaw allows a remote attacker in an adjacent range to crash the system, causing a denial of service or potentially executing arbitrary code on the system by sending a specially crafted L2CAP packet. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.3

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12351
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/BleedingTooth
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25661
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12351
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/BleedingTooth
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25661

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