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🛡️ CVE-2025-53470 — nimble

🟢 CVSS 3.1 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-125 NVD
3.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Apache NimBLE HCI H4 driver. Specially crafted HCI event could lead to invalid memory read in H4 driver.

This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.8. 

This issue requires a broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.9, which fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53470 is classified as CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read. The code reads past the limits of a buffer, exposing adjacent memory contents or crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53470 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nimble (fixed in 1.9.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 January 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nimble — 1.9.0

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