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CVE-2020-26559

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26559 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Bluetooth Mesh Provisioning in versions 1.0 and 1.0.1 of the Bluetooth Mesh profile. A nearby attacker participating in the provisioning protocol can deduce the AuthValue, bypassing brute-force protection and potentially completing provisioning without authorization. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over an adjacent network with no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, though it has received some media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bluetooth:mesh_profile:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bluetooth:mesh_profile:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 1,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: bluez
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: bluez

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-26559Moderate

kernel: Authvalue leak in Bluetooth Mesh Provisioning

May 24, 2021

References

kb.cert.org / vuls/id/799380
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/799380
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
bluetooth.com / learn-about-bluetooth/key-attributes/bluetooth-security/reporting-security
Vendor Advisory