{"id":62617,"date":"2025-08-08T18:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:32:45","slug":"cve-2025-20700-permission-bypass-vulnerability-in-airoha-bluetooth-audio-sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-20700-permission-bypass-vulnerability-in-airoha-bluetooth-audio-sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-20700: Permission Bypass Vulnerability in Airoha Bluetooth Audio SDK<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has identified a serious vulnerability in the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK, which has been designated as CVE-2025-20700. This vulnerability threatens all systems that utilise this Bluetooth audio SDK, potentially leading to unauthorised access to critical data through the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) GATT service.<br \/>\nThe significance of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7548-critical-vulnerability-in-tenda-fh1201-leading-to-stack-based-buffer-overflow\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69594\">vulnerability lies in its potential to lead<\/a> to a remote escalation of privilege, without the need for additional execution privileges and without requiring user interaction. This makes it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52187-critical-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-getprojectsidea-create-school-management-system-1-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70245\">critical risk for all systems<\/a> and devices using the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK, as it can result in system compromise and data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-20700<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.8 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-54189-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-parallels-desktop-for-mac-snapshot-functionality\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69801\">Escalation of privilege<\/a>, potential system compromise, and data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3455075032\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-20701-escalation-of-privileges-in-airoha-bluetooth-audio-sdk\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"76267\">Airoha Bluetooth Audio<\/a> SDK | All versions<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CVE-2025-20700 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7692-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-in-orion-login-with-sms-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69953\">vulnerability is a permission bypass<\/a> issue that resides within the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-20253-critical-vulnerability-in-ikev2-feature-of-cisco-software-could-lead-to-denial-of-service-dos-attack\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"76191\">vulnerability can be exploited through the Bluetooth LE GATT service<\/a>, which is specifically designed for short-range wireless communication.<br \/>\nAn attacker can exploit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-36845-server-side-request-forgery-ssrf-vulnerability-in-eveo-urve-web-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70656\">vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request<\/a> to the Bluetooth LE GATT service. The vulnerability allows the attacker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-41238-critical-heap-overflow-vulnerability-in-vmware-esxi-workstation-and-fusion\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"69591\">bypass the permissions<\/a> needed to access the critical data of the RACE protocol. This can lead to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-26396-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-solarwinds-dameware-mini-remote-control\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70054\">escalation of privilege<\/a>, granting the attacker the ability to manipulate or compromise the system remotely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2463470623\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Below is a conceptual example of how an attacker might send a specially crafted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52362-critical-server-side-request-forgery-vulnerability-in-phproxy\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"71124\">request to exploit the vulnerability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/BluetoothLE\/GATT\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{ &quot;exploit_payload&quot;: &quot;permission_bypass_data&quot; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker sends a POST request to the Bluetooth LE GATT service with a JSON payload designed to exploit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-26469-dangerous-default-permissions-vulnerability-in-meddream-pacs-premium\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70326\">permission bypass vulnerability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recommended mitigation for the CVE-2025-20700 vulnerability is to apply a patch from the vendor as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, systems can be temporarily protected by using a web application firewall (WAF) or intrusion detection system (IDS) to detect and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8059-critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-b-blocks-wordpress-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"76476\">block attempts to exploit this vulnerability<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has identified a serious vulnerability in the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK, which has been designated as CVE-2025-20700. This vulnerability threatens all systems that utilise this Bluetooth audio SDK, potentially leading to unauthorised access to critical data through the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) GATT service. The significance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-62617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62617"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68914,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions\/68914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=62617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}