CVE-2021-1683

Windows Bluetooth Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.0
EPSS
EPSS 1.68 % · percentile 77 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

Microsoft is aware of the "Impersonation in the Passkey Entry Protocol" vulnerability. For more information regarding the vulnerability, please see this statement from the Bluetooth SIG. To address the vulnerability, Microsoft has released a software update that will fail attempts to pair if the remote device exchanges a public key with the same X coordinate as the locally exchanged public key

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 20H2affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server version 20H2affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1803affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1809affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1909affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 2004affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server version 2004affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1507affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1607affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)affected 10.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows 8.1affected 6.3.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2affected 6.3.0 < publication
Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)affected 6.3.0 < publication

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD