A new critical Bluetooth vulnerability discovered in Android Bluetooth system that allows remote attackers silently execute arbitrary code remotely and take the complete device control.

Researchers discovered that the vulnerability affected Android Oreo 8.0 to Android Pie 9.0 and there is no user interaction required for attackers to exploit this vulnerability.

Due to technical reasons, Android 10 is not exploitable, but the vulnerability leads to crash the Bluetooth daemon.

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Android versions even older than 8.0 might also be affected but the researchers did not evaluate the impact.

According to Insinuator report “In order to exploit the vulnerability, the attacker needs to be within the proximity range and the Bluetooth MAC address of the targeted device has to be known.”

Identifying the MAC is not a difficult part for the attackers, and the Bluetooth MAC address for some devices can be deduced from the WiFi MAC address.

Install the Latest Patch

The Vulnerability can be tracked as CVE-2020-0022, and the patch has been released in the latest security patch from February 2020.

Android released a security update that explains: “The most severe vulnerability could enable a remote attacker using a specially crafted transmission to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process.”

This vulnerability can lead to theft of personal data and could potentially be used to spread malware and spy your android device remotely.

At the time of writing, there is no technical information available for this critical Bluetooth vulnerability. we will update you once we found the relevant technical details.

Mitigation

All the Android users are strongly advised to update the latest security patch released by Android.

Don’t enable your Bluetooth in your Android when you’re not using it.

Keep your device non-discoverable. Most are only discoverable if you enter the Bluetooth scanning menu. Nevertheless, some older phones might be discoverable permanently.

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