Bluetooth HID Hosts in BlueZ may permit an unauthenticated Peripheral role HID Device to initiate and establish an encrypted connection, and accept HID keyboard reports, potentially permitting injection of HID messages when no user interaction has occurred in the Central role to authorize such access. An example affected package is bluez 5.64-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04LTS. NOTE: in some cases, a CVE-2020-0556 mitigation would have already addressed this Bluetooth HID Hosts issue.
CVE-2023-45866
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-12-08. NVD baseline CVSS 6.3; sources differ by 2.5.
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.3
- EG Score
- 8.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 56EG Risk 56/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity88% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 7.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 94th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 7.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-20). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
December 8, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (15)
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/b/bluez/bluez_5.64-0ubuntu1/changelogRelease Notes
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/7Mailing List · Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/9Mailing List · Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://bluetooth.comNot Applicable
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/profiles/input?id=25a471a83e02e1effb15d5a488b3f0085eaeb675Mailing List · Patch
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://github.com/skysafe/reblog/tree/main/cve-2023-45866Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00011.htmlMailing List · Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77YQQS5FXPYE6WBBZO3REFIRAUJHERFA/Mailing List
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2N2P5LMP3V7IJONALV2KOFL4NUU23CJ/Mailing List
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-03
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT214035Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT214036Third Party Advisory
- MITRE · CVE Programhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5584
- CVE Programhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/77YQQS5FXPYE6WBBZO3REFIRAUJHERFA/
- CVE Programhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/D2N2P5LMP3V7IJONALV2KOFL4NUU23CJ/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-45866(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2024:9413Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: bluez security update
- CVE-2023-45866Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Medium
Bluetooth HID Hosts in BlueZ may permit an unauthenticated Peripheral role HID Device to initiate and establish an encrypted connection and accept HID keyboard reports potentially permitting injection of HID messages when no user interaction has occurred in the Central role to authorize such access. An example affected package is bluez 5.64-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04LTS. NOTE: in some cases a CVE-2020-0556 mitigation would have already addressed this Bluetooth HID Hosts issue.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libbluetooth3 (5.37-0ubuntu5.3+esm3) @ xenial | 2026-10-20 | ubuntu |
| redhat | bluez-0:5.63-3.el8_10 | 2024-12-17 | redhat |
| redhat | bluez-0:5.72-2.el9 | 2024-11-12 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| bluez | 5.50-1, 5.50-1.1, 5.50-1.2~deb10u1, 5.50-1.2~deb10u2, 5.50-1.2~deb10u3 |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| bluez | 5.55-3.1 |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| bluez | 5.66-1 |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| bluez | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| bluez | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(2)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Publicly available exploits
(5 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (5 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCSergeb250/BlueDuckyPublished Aug 26, 2025
BlueDucky exploits a Bluetooth vulnerability, specifically CVE-2023-45866, which allows an attacker to inject keystrokes into a target device. The attacker's device impersonates a Bluetooth keyboard to establish an encrypted connection without user authorization. The BlueDucky tool automates this process
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCDanyw24/blueXploitPublished Dec 15, 2024
Exploit basado en vulnerabilidades criticas Bluetooth (CVE-2023-45866, CVE-2024-21306)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCAvishekDhakal/CVE-2023-45866_EXPLOITSPublished Sep 2, 2024
Exploits Tested in Mi A2 Lite and Realme 2 pro
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCEason-zz/BluetoothDuckyPublished Jan 16, 2024
CVE-2023-45866 - BluetoothDucky implementation (Using DuckyScript)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCpentestfunctions/BlueDuckyPublished Jan 16, 2024
🚨 CVE-2023-45866 - BlueDucky Implementation (Using DuckyScript) 🔓 Unauthenticated Peering Leading to Code Execution (Using HID Keyboard)
Open source ↗
Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)
Same product
10 shownDebian:10:bluez
Same vendor
9 shownredhat:RHSA-2024:9413
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