CVE-2025-53477

published 2026-01-10

CVE-2025-53477: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Apache Nimble. Missing validation of HCI connection complete or HCI command TX buffer could lead to NULL pointer…

Priority P3 44 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Apache Nimble.

Missing validation of HCI connection complete or HCI command TX buffer could lead to NULL pointer dereference.
This issue requires disabled asserts and broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low.

This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.8.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.9.0, which fixes the issue.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	nimble	< 1.9.0	1.9.0
apache_software_foundation	apache_mynewt_nimble	<= 1.8.0	—

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