CVE-2015-8612

high

Published 2016-01-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

8.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.4

Description

The EnableNetwork method in the Network class in plugins/mechanism/Network.py in Blueman before 2.0.3 allows local users to gain privileges via the dhcp_handler argument.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-46186 local linux verified

Metasploit · 2019-01-16

blueman - set_dhcp_handler D-Bus Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/local/blueman_set_dhcp_handler_dbus_priv_esc rank 600

blueman set_dhcp_handler D-Bus Privilege Escalation

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.0.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.0.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.0.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.0.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.0.3-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
blueman_project	blueman	`{"endIncluding":"2.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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