CVE-2020-26558

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing (in the Passkey authentication procedure) by reflection of the public key and the authentication evidence of the initiating device, potentially permitting this attacker to complete authenticated pairing with the responding device using the correct Passkey for the pairing session. The attack methodology determines the Passkey value one bit at a time.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26558.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26558

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed5.55-3.1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.55-3.1
debian debianforkyfixed5.55-3.1
debian debiansidfixed5.55-3.1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.55-3.1
arch archfixed5.57-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.