Apache NimBLE: Lack of input sanitization leading to out-of-bound reads in Number of Completed Packets HCI event handler
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.2%
exploitation probability
1.2%top 32% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Apache NimBLE.
Missing proper validation of HCI Number Of Completed Packets could lead to out-of-bound access when parsing HCI event and invalid read from HCI transport memory.
This issue requires broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low.
This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.7.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.8.0, which fixes the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache NimBLE