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Headphone Jacking - A Key to Your Phone

Demonstrates TROOPERS25: Headphone Jacking - A Key to Your Phone and evaluates key implications for security practitioners.

Summary

Overview: Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone. Dennis Heinze and Frieder Steinmetz. Three vulnerabilities in Airoha Bluetooth audio chips: CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702. Missing authentication for RACE protocol; dump RAM/flash; steal Bluetooth link keys; impersonate headphones toward a paired phone. Tooling released for checking affected devices. Vendors include Sony, Marshall, Beyerdynamic, Jabra.

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