# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43334"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:31:20.923Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:26.745Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43334"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43334.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43334"
title: "Bluetooth: SMP: force responder MITM requirements before building the pairing response"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: SMP: force responder MITM requirements before building the pairing response\n\nsmp_cmd_pairing_req() currently builds the pairing response from the\ninitiator auth_req before enforcing the local BT_SECURITY_HIGH\nrequirement. If the initiator omits SMP_AUTH_MITM, the response can\nalso omit it even though the local side still requires MITM.\n\ntk_request() then sees an auth value without SMP_AUTH_MITM and may\nselect JUST_CFM, making method selection inconsistent with the pairing\npolicy the responder already enforces.\n\nWhen the local side requires HIGH security, first verify that MITM can\nbe achieved from the IO capabilities and then force SMP_AUTH_MITM in the\nresponse in both rsp.auth_req and auth. This keeps the responder auth bits\nand later method selection aligned."
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