CVE-2025-53470

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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
2026-01-10T09:46:35Z
Modified
2026-08-12T14:52:44Z
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
Apache Mynewt NimBLE: Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in NimBLE HCI H4 driver
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.

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids": [
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    ],
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}
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
da7e3256da3ba80b232df880f40d8359311cc62e
Fixed
b973df0c6cf7b30efbf8eb2cafdc1ee843464b76
Database specific
Show details 
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    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:nimble:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.9.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

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 
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-12T14:52:44Z"