CVE-2025-53470

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53470
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-53470.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-53470
Published
2026-01-10T10:15:50.493Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:51:19.922612Z
Severity
  • 3.1 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.9.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
nimble_1_5_0_rc1_tag
nimble_1_5_0_tag
nimble_1_6_0_rc1_tag
nimble_1_6_0_tag
nimble_1_7_0_rc1_tag
nimble_1_7_0_tag
nimble_1_8_0_rc1_tag
nimble_1_8_0_tag

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-53470.json"
vanir_signatures
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        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble/commit/b973df0c6cf7b30efbf8eb2cafdc1ee843464b76",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "nimble/transport/common/hci_h4/src/hci_h4.c",
            "function": "hci_h4_sm_w4_header"
        }
    },
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        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble/commit/b973df0c6cf7b30efbf8eb2cafdc1ee843464b76",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "nimble/transport/common/hci_h4/src/hci_h4.c"
        }
    }
]