Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 7, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-5383
CVE-2018-5383
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.
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Affected products
16<10.13 High Sierra+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <10.13 High Sierra
- (no CPE)range: 10.13 High Sierra
<11.4+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <11.4
- (no CPE)range: 11
- osv-coords11 versionspkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-firmware&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207
< 20170530-21.28.1+ 10 more
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20160516git-10.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20140807git-5.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20160516git-10.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170530-21.28.1
- Android Open Source Project/Androidv5Range: unspecified
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
12- www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/nvdMitigationThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/104879nvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1041432nvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4095-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4095-2/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4351-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.bluetooth.com/news/unknown/2018/07/bluetooth-sig-security-updatenvdBroken LinkVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00005.htmlnvdMailing List
News mentions
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