HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-0797

N70 vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Nokia N70 cell phone allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot or shutdown) through a wireless Bluetooth connection via a malformed Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) packet whose length field is less than the actual length of the packet, possibly triggering a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using the Bluetooth Stack Smasher (BSS).
Affected vendor
Nokia
Affected product
N70
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2006-02-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-0797

  • Confirm whether Nokia N70 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-0797.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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