CVE-2025-12890
Bluetooth: peripheral: Invalid handling of malformed connection request
Improper handling of malformed Connection Request with the interval set to be 1 (which supposed to be illegal) and the chM 0x7CFFFFFFFF triggers a crash. The peripheral will not be connectable after it.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Bluetooth: peripheral: Invalid handling of malformed connection request
Improper handling of malformed Connection Request with the interval set to be 1 (which supposed to be illegal) and the chM 0x7CFFFFFFFF triggers a crash. The peripheral will not be connectable after it.
- Record
CVE-2025-12890- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-703
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-38327
Improper handling of malformed Connection Request with the interval set to be 1 (which supposed to be illegal) and the chM 0x7CFFFFFFFF triggers a crash. The peripheral will not be connectable after it.
- Record
EUVD-2025-38327- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Improper handling of malformed Connection Request with the interval set to be 1 (which supposed to be illegal) and the chM 0x7CFFFFFFFF triggers a crash. The peripheral will not be connectable after it.
- Record
CVE-2025-12890- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-703
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Bluetooth: peripheral: Invalid handling of malformed connection request
Improper handling of malformed Connection Request with the interval set to be 1 (which supposed to be illegal) and the chM 0x7CFFFFFFFF triggers a crash. The peripheral will not be connectable after it.
- Record
CVE-2025-12890- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-703
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PoC in GitHub | gduma-phData/patch-CVE-2025-12890 | 2026-08-24 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-12890 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr, published November 7, 2025. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.20%, the 10th percentile. No source names a fixed version.