Three Bluetooth Chip Vulnerabilities Found in Airoha-Powered Headphones and Earbuds
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AndrewDucker
5mo ago· 3 min readenNews
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Summary
Security researchers Dennis Heinze and Frieder Steinmetz discovered three vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702) in Airoha Bluetooth audio chips used in popular headphones and earbuds. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to abuse Bluetooth headphones beyond just eavesdropping on what someone is listening to, potentially compromising the connected phone.
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· 3 pulledBluetooth headphones and earbuds are everywhere, and we were wondering what attackers could abuse them for.
During our research we discovered three vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702) in popular Bluetooth audio chips developed by Airoha.
These chips are used by many popular device manufacturers in numerous Bluetooth headphones and earbuds.
Bluetooth headphones and earbuds are everywhere, and we were wondering what attackers could abuse them for. Sure, they can probably do th...
