CVE-2022-25836

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 12, 2022
Updated: Apr 22, 2025
Reserved: Feb 24, 2022

Description

Bluetooth® Low Energy Pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification v4.0 through v5.3 may permit an unauthenticated MITM to acquire credentials with two pairing devices via adjacent access when the MITM negotiates Legacy Passkey Pairing with the pairing Initiator and Secure Connections Passkey Pairing with the pairing Responder and brute forces the Passkey entered by the user into the Initiator. The MITM attacker can use the identified Passkey value to complete authentication with the Responder via Bluetooth pairing method confusion.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/key-attributes/bluetooth-security/reporting-security/

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