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zephyrproject zephyr — Use-after-free of GATT subscribe params in Bluetooth host CCC-write response handler
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A L N N U L L H 7.6 .0019 9.1 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
zephyr 2.4.0 – —
TIMELINE
Jun 2 Reserved by zephyr
Jul 31 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-10685 (zephyrproject zephyr). Public exploit reference added.
Jul 31 Published (CNA: zephyr)
Description
The Zephyr Bluetooth GATT client CCC-write response handler gatt_write_ccc_rsp() in subsys/bluetooth/host/gatt.c invoked the application's params->subscribe() callback after it had already called params->notify(conn, params, NULL, 0).
Per the public GATT API, a notify callback with NULL data is the documented signal that the subscription has terminated and the bt_gatt_subscribe_params struct may be freed or reused by the application; calling subscribe() on the struct afterwards is a use-after-free, including an indirect call through the freed params->subscribe function pointer.
The error branch is remotely (adjacent) reachable: a Zephyr device acting as a GATT client that calls bt_gatt_subscribe() can be driven into this ordering when a connected GATT server peer answers the CCC write with an ATT Error Response (the peer-supplied error code flows through att_error_rsp -> att_handle_rsp into gatt_write_ccc_rsp).
For applications that free or recycle subscription parameters in their notification-termination handler, this results in memory corruption, a crash (denial of service), or potentially attacker-influenced control flow. The fix reorders the handler so the subscribe() callback runs before the terminating notify(NULL) in both the error and unsubscribe paths.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| June 2, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by zephyr |
| July 31, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-10685 (zephyrproject zephyr). Public exploit reference added. |
| July 31, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: zephyr) |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| zephyrproject | zephyr | — | 2.4.0 | — |
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