Medium severity · published Sep 20, 2021
CVE-2020-16630
TI’s BLE stack caches and reuses the LTK’s property for a bonded mobile
6.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
15
15.4-stack · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
BL
Ble5-stack · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
DM
Dynamic Multi-protocal Manager · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
EA
Easylink · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
OP
Openthread · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
RO
Real-time Operating System · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
ZS
Z-stack · TI
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD