CVE-2018-10910

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-07-20
CWE:
CWE-863
Bugzilla:
1606203: CVE-2018-10910 bluez: failure in disabling Bluetooth discoverability in certain cases may lead to the unauthorized pairing of Bluetooth devices
A bug in Bluez may allow for the Bluetooth Discoverable state being set to on when no Bluetooth agent is registered with the system. This situation could lead to the unauthorized pairing of certain Bluetooth devices without any form of authentication.

Find out more about CVE-2018-10910 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 4.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bluez Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bluez Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Chris Marchesi for reporting this issue.

Mitigation

Disable Bluetooth.

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