Security News > 2019 > August > Critical Bluetooth vulnerability opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks
A newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2019-9506) in the Bluetooth Core Specification can be exploited by attackers to intercept and manipulate Bluetooth communications/traffic between two vulnerable devices. Researchers Daniele Antonioli, Nils Ole Tippenhauer and Kasper Rasmussen discovered the flaw and demonstrated a practical Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth (KNOB) attack taking advantage of it. They also shared their discovery with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG), the CERT Coordination Center, and members of the International Consortium for … More → The post Critical Bluetooth vulnerability opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-14 | CVE-2019-9506 | Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in multiple products The Bluetooth BR/EDR specification up to and including version 5.1 permits sufficiently low encryption key length and does not prevent an attacker from influencing the key length negotiation. | 8.1 |