CVE-2006-6899

Exp

hidd in BlueZ (bluez-utils) before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain control of the (1) Mouse and (2) Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a certain configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, operating as a server, aka HidAttack.

Published: 2006-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6899 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 11.43%, 94th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.47% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-6899

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
29471 exploit_db edb 2007-11-16 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6899

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-21 9.95% 11.43% +1.47%
2 2025-12-11 9.72% 9.95% +0.24%
3 2025-08-27 — 9.72% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6899

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:A)
Requires access to an adjacent network segment.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 5.5 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6899

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6899

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6899: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6899
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-6899
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-6899 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bluez-utils), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-6899

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6899

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bluez_project bluez <= 2.24 cpe:2.3:o:bluez_project:bluez:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6899

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