🛡️ CVE-2022-25836
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-294 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-294
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-12
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bluetooth-core-specification 4.0 5.3

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