CVE-2020-15238
Local privilege escalation Blueman
02 Description
Local privilege escalation Blueman
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-10-27 19:00Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 13:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-25
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.1)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f6baf025d8975476514b178a89e8a191490675c36390ab50ec3b0fc64fb39bbf
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/security/advisories/GHSA-jpc9-mgw6-2xwx
- github.comhttps://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/releases/tag/2.1.4
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blueman/+bug/1897287
- www.debian.orgDSA-4781https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4781
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159740/Blueman-Local-Root-Privilege-Escalation.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20201103 [SECURITY] [DLA 2430-1] blueman security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00005.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-7c22b25a07https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CFLMNHAHX5HPIKC5IG6F25HO5Z6RH2N/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-ebabb6bf76https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W52NP7HRFTNAVNZLGKY4GR3JIZG5KKGS/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-e083225fa1https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3F4EQU6CAPBKAPJ42HTB473NJLXFKB32/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202011-11https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-11
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- blueman Fixed in 2.1.4-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- blueman Fixed in 2.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- blueman Fixed in 2.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- blueman Fixed in 2.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- blueman Fixed in 2.0.4-1ubuntu2.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- blueman Fixed in 2.0.5-1ubuntu1.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- blueman Fixed in 2.1.2-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.