Android and Chrome start showing passwords the door

Google has announced that it's bringing passkey support to both Android and Chrome. On May 5, 2022, it said it would implement passwordless support in Android and Chrome and the latest annoncement about passkeys is an important step in that journey. Passkeys Passkeys are a replacement for...

Google Rolling Out Passkey Passwordless Login Support to Android and Chrome

Google on Wednesday officially rolled out support for passkeys, the next-generation authentication standard, to both Android and Chrome. "Passkeys are a significantly safer replacement for passwords and other phishable authentication factors," the tech giant said. "They cannot be reused, don't le...

Here are the new security and privacy features of iOS 16

On Monday, September 12, Apple released iOS 16, which included a host of new security and privacy features. Let's look at what these are--and some quality-of-life QoL changes. Lockdown Mode As Macrumors calls it, Lockdown Mode is an "extreme" security setting ideal for those who regularly find...

Apple puts the password on life support with passkey

The "passwordless future" is something many internet users--and a great majority of the cybersecurity industry--have hoped for. Now Apple is about to make those hopes a reality. With the release of iOS 16 yesterday, and macOS Ventura next month, Apple fans will be able to use passkeys, its passwo...

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing (in the Passkey authentication procedure) by reflection of the public key and the authentication evidence of the initiating device potentially permitting this attacker to complete authenticated pairing with the responding device using the correct Passkey for the pairing session. The attack methodology determines the Passkey value one bit at a time.

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RHEL 8 : bluez (RHSA-2021:4432)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4432 advisory. The bluez packages contain the following utilities for use in Bluetooth applications: hcitool, hciattach, hciconfig, bluetoothd, l2ping, start script...

CentOS 8 : bluez (CESA-2021:4432)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:4432 advisory. - bluez: Passkey Entry protocol of the Bluetooth Core is vulnerable to an impersonation attack CVE-2020-26558 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but...

bluez: Passkey Entry protocol of the Bluetooth Core is vulnerable to an impersonation attack

A vulnerability was found in the bluez, where Passkey Entry protocol used in Secure Simple Pairing SSP, Secure Connections SC and LE Secure Connections LESC of the Bluetooth Core Specification is vulnerable to an impersonation attack where an active attacker can impersonate the initiating device...

CVE-2020-16630: Incorrect Authorization

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 pairin...

Debian DSA-4951-1 : bluez - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-4951 advisory. Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Bluez, the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. CVE-2020-26558 / CVE-2021-0129 It was discovered that Bluez does not properl...

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in hdinnovations/unit3d-community-edition

✍️ Description The referenced code block uses PHP's native md5 and uniqid functions to generate the attributes named passkey and rsskey - both of which are to be considered cryptographically insecure due to their usage of uniqid which is not to be considered cryptographically secure. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of...

SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2451-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2451-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixe...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2421-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2421-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2422-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2422-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : bluez (openSUSE-SU-2021:2291-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:2291-1 advisory. - Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : bluez (SUSE-SU-2021:2291-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2291-1 advisory. - CVE-2021-0129,CVE-2020-26558: Check bluetooth security flags bsc1186463. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

MGASA-2021-0281 Updated bluez packages fix security vulnerability

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing in the Passkey authentication procedure by reflection of the public key and the authentication evidence of the initiati...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : BlueZ vulnerabilities (USN-4989-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4989-2 advisory. USN-4989-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in BlueZ. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the precedin...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : BlueZ vulnerabilities (USN-4989-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4989-1 advisory. It was discovered that BlueZ incorrectly checked certain permissions when pairing. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to...

CVE-2020-26558

Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey used during pairing in the Passkey authentication procedure by reflection of the public key and the authentication evidence of the initiati...