# CVE-2026-10593: Remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference in Bluetooth LE Audio BAP unicast client QoS-state handling

- Also known as: GHSA-22Q8-M94G-2PWH
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.3.1, 4.4.2
- Published: 2026-06-28 · Updated: 2026-10-15

## Affected

- zephyr: from 4.3.0, fixed in 4.3.1; from 4.4.0, fixed in 4.4.2

## Description

The Zephyr Bluetooth LE Audio Basic Audio Profile (BAP) unicast client mishandles peer-supplied ASE state notifications. In unicast_client_ep_qos_state() (subsys/bluetooth/audio/bap_unicast_client.c), the handler writes attacker-controlled QoS fields (interval, framing, phy, sdu, rtn, latency, pd) through the stream->qos pointer with only a stream != NULL guard. stream->qos is NULL for any stream that has been codec-configured via bt_bap_stream_config() but not yet added to a unicast group (it is set only by unicast_group_add_stream()). A malicious or buggy remote ASCS server, to which the local device is connected as a BAP unicast client, can send a GATT notification announcing the ASE has entered the QoS Configured state while the local endpoint is still in the Codec Configured state — a transition the dispatcher explicitly permits — during that window, causing a write through a NULL pointer and a crash (denial of service). The data written is itself remote-controlled. The defect shipped in v4.3.0 and v4.4.0 (and earlier). The fix re-points all BAP QoS storage to the always-valid embedded ep->qos struct, eliminating the NULL dereference.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/52f25c903f2926cb1281b50fd79654668e2d483f
- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-22q8-m94g-2pwh

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