Medium severity · published Aug 7, 2018
CVE-2018-5383
Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange
6.8
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Bluetooth firmware or operating system software drivers in macOS versions before 10.13, High Sierra and iOS versions before 11.4, and Android versions before the 2018-06-05 patch may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters used to generate public keys during a Diffie-Hellman key exchange, which may allow a remote attacker to obtain the encryption key used by the device.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
iOS · Apple
11 before 11.4 · source: vendor, NVD
MA
macOS · Apple
10.13 High Sierra before 10.13.6 · source: vendor
AN
Android · Google
6.0; 6.0.1; 7.0; 7.1.1; 7.1.2; 8.0; +1 more · source: NVD, vendor
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
before 10.13 · source: NVD
WB
Wl18xx Bluetooth Service Pack · TI
before 4.3 · source: NVD
Affected product
IO
iOS
Apple
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