CVE-2020-16630

TI’s BLE stack caches and reuses the LTK’s property for a bonded mobile

published September 20, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TI’s BLE stack caches and reuses the LTK’s property for a bonded mobile. A LTK can be an unauthenticated-and-no-MITM-protection key created by Just Works or an authenticated-and-MITM-protection key created by Passkey Entry, Numeric Comparison or OOB. Assume that a victim mobile uses secure pairing to pair with a victim BLE device based on TI chips and generate an authenticated-and-MITM-protection LTK. If a fake mobile with the victim mobile’s MAC address uses Just Works and pairs with the victim device, the generated LTK still has the property of authenticated-and-MITM-protection. Therefore, the fake mobile can access attributes with the authenticated read/write permission.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00689 · 52.2th percentile
Published
2021-09-20T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 SEP 19:20Z
    TI’s BLE stack caches and reuses the LTK’s property for a bonded mobile
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