CVE-2022-38788 — An issue was discovered in Nokia FastMile 5G Receiver 5G14-B 1

An issue was discovered in Nokia FastMile 5G Receiver 5G14-B 1.2104.00.0281. Bluetooth on the Nokia ODU uses outdated pairing mechanisms, allowing an attacker to passively intercept a paring handshake and (after offline cracking) retrieve the PIN and LTK (long-term key).

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Nokia FastMile 5G Receiver 5G14-B 1.2104.00.0281. Bluetooth on the Nokia ODU uses outdated pairing mechanisms, allowing an attacker to passively intercept a paring handshake and (after offline cracking) retrieve the PIN and LTK (long-term key).

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2022-09-15T11:58:50.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.536Z

09References

• www.nokia.com — https://www.nokia.com/notices/responsible-disclosure/
• github.com — https://github.com/ProxyStaffy/Nokia-FastMile-5G-Receiver-5G14-B