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CVE-2006-6899

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6899 describes a vulnerability in BlueZ (bluez-utils) versions prior to 2.25, allowing remote attackers to gain control of a victim's Mouse and Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a specific configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, known as HidAttack. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a medium severity with an adjacent network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit for this vulnerability (EDB-29471) is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:bluez_project:bluez:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.4MEDIUM

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
5.5
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29471 · Nov 16, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0322 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: bluez-utils-0:2.10-2.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6899Moderate

security flaw

Dec 28, 2006

References

events.ccc.de / congress/2006-mediawiki//images/f/fb/23c3_Bluetooh_revisited.pdf
mulliner.org / bluetooth/hidattack.php
osvdb.org / 32830
secunia.com / advisories/23747
secunia.com / advisories/23798
secunia.com / advisories/23879
secunia.com / advisories/25264
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10208
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0065.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/455889/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/22076
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-413-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0200