CVE-2018-10910

MEDIUM

bluez < 5.51 - Unauthenticated Bluetooth Pairing via Discoverable State

Title source: llm

Description

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. Versions before bluez 5.51 are vulnerable.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10910

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3856-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 17.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-863

Status published

Products (2)

bluez/bluez < 5.51

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

Published Jan 28, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026