Security News > 2018 > July > The Bluetooth “device snooping bug” – what you need to know
2018-07-24 11:59
A "Bluetooth snooping" bug, dubbed CVE-2018-5383, was just announced - are you patched, and how can you tell?
News URL
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/24/the-bluetooth-device-snooping-bug-what-you-need-to-know/
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-07 | CVE-2018-5383 | Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 4.3 |