CVE-2018-5383: Apple macOS

Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange

CVSS 8.0 HighEPSS 0.0081 · 56th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: certcc) at 7 Aug 2018, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	macOS	affected 10.13 High Sierra to before 10.13.6 custom
Apple	iOS	affected 11 to before 11.4 custom
Android Open Source Project	Android	affected unspecified to before 2018-06-05 patch level custom

Identifiers

CVE-2018-5383

CNA

certcc

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-325

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.0	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	CNA (certcc)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0081, the 56th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 7 Aug 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/BT/
www.securitytracker.com/id/1041432 vdb-entrysectrack
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725 third-party-advisorycert-vn
www.bluetooth.com/news/unknown/2018/07/bluetooth-sig-security-update confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/104879 vdb-entrybid
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00005.html mailing-listmlist
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169 vendor-advisoryredhat
usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/4095-2/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/4095-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/4351-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.