{"id":"CVE-2018-5383","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-5383","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:27:07.066Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2018-08-07T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:00:14.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-325","CWE-347"],"affected":["ti/wl18xx bluetooth service pack","google/android","apple/iphone os","apple/mac os x"],"epss":{"score":0.00806,"percentile":0.56603,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.81%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104879","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041432","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00005.html","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-2/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4351-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://www.bluetooth.com/news/unknown/2018/07/bluetooth-sig-security-update","tags":["Broken Link","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104879","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041432","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00005.html","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4095-2/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4351-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.bluetooth.com/news/unknown/2018/07/bluetooth-sig-security-update","tags":["Broken Link","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5383","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}