CVE-2018-5383

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    CVE-2018-5383

    Published: 7 Aug 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-2/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/, https://www.bluetooth.com/news/unknown/2018/07/bluetooth-sig-security-update, https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725, http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104879, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4351-1/, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041432, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00005.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High