CVE-2026-53072: Bluetooth: fix locking in hci_conn_request_evt() with HCI_PROTO_DEFER
CSIRTS triage
- What
- This vulnerability involves a locking issue in the Bluetooth subsystem.
- Who is affected
- Deployments using the affected Bluetooth subsystem.
- Urgency
- Remediation is high urgency due to the high severity rating.
- Action
- Apply the relevant patches to fix the locking issue.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
Details
Original advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-53072
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-530720.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 16% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-53072 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Bluetooth
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- mediumCVE-2026-10660: The Bluetooth BAP Broadcast Assistant GATT client in subsys/bluetooth/audio/bap_broadcast_assi…nvd · 2026-07-11
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] Linux Kernel (Bluetooth): Multiple vulnerabilities allow Denial of Servicecert-bund · 2026-07-06
- unknownCVE-2026-53358: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: use chan…nvd · 2026-07-02
- unknownCVE-2026-53357: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: fix UAF in l2ca…nvd · 2026-07-02
- unknownCVE-2026-14035: Chromium: CVE-2026-14035 Insufficient policy enforcement in Bluetoothmsrc · 2026-07-02
- unknownCVE-2026-13879: Chromium: CVE-2026-13879 Use after free in Bluetoothmsrc · 2026-07-02
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