CVE-2023-45866: apple ipados Improper Authentication
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-45866 is a medium (CVSS 6.3) Improper Authentication vulnerability in apple ipados. EPSS estimates a 7.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 08-12-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 04-11-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Bluetooth HID Hosts in BlueZ may permit an unauthenticated Peripheral role HID Device to initiate and establish an encrypted connection, and accept HID keyboard reports, potentially permitting injection of HID messages when no user interaction has occurred in the Central role to authorize such access. An example affected package is bluez 5.64-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04LTS. NOTE: in some cases, a CVE-2020-0556 mitigation would have already addressed this Bluetooth HID Hosts issue.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated6.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS trend
Probability
7.88%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
95%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 7.88% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Redhat12 products
- bluez< 0:5.63-3.el8_10
- bluez-cups< 0:5.63-3.el8_10
- bluez-cups-debuginfo< 0:5.63-3.el8_10
- bluez-debuginfo< 0:5.63-3.el8_10
- bluez-debugsource< 0:5.63-3.el8_10
Suse6 products
- bluez&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3< 5.62-150400.4.22.1
- bluez&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4< 5.62-150400.4.22.1
- bluez&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5< 5.65-150500.3.14.1
- bluez&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5< 5.13-5.45.1
- bluez&distro=SUSE Linux Micro 6.0< 5.70-2.1
Debian2 products
- bluez< 5.70-1.1 | < 5.55-3.1+deb11u1 | < 5.66-1+deb12u1 | < 5.50-1.2~deb10u4
- debian_linuxEOL10.0
Canonical1 product
- ubuntu_linuxEOL18.04 | 20.04 | 22.04 | 23.10
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL38 | 39
Google1 product
- androidEOL4.2.2 | 6.0.1 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 14.0
Mageia1 product
- bluez< 5.70-1.mga9
Opensuse1 product
- bluez&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 5.70-2.1
Ubuntu1 product
- bluez< 5.70-0ubuntu3 | < 5.37-0ubuntu5.3+esm3 | < 5.48-0ubuntu3.9+esm1 | < 5.53-0ubuntu3.7 | < 5.64-0ubuntu1.1
10 vendors · 29 products
References
34 links- bluetooth.comNot Applicable
- support.apple.com/kb/HT214036Third Party Advisory
- support.apple.com/kb/HT214035Third Party Advisory
Show all 34 references
- www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5584Vendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-03Vendor Advisory