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CVE-2018-5383 — Bluetooth firmware or operating system software drivers in macOS versions before

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-

CVSS
8.0 HIGH
EPSS
0.17% (top 62.50%)
CWE
CWE-325
Published
2018-08-07T21:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-16T20:36:44.114Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
ApplemacOS10.13 High Sierra
AppleiOS11
Android Open Source ProjectAndroidunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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