CVE-2023-24023 (GCVE-0-2023-24023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-28 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 10:49
VLAI
Summary
Bluetooth BR/EDR devices with Secure Simple Pairing and Secure Connections pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4 allow certain man-in-the-middle attacks that force a short key length, and might lead to discovery of the encryption key and live injection, aka BLUFFS.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-01 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
bluetooth bluetooth_core_specification Affected: 4.2 , ≤ 5.4 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:bluetooth:bluetooth_core_specification:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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