Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade') Affecting bthome-ble package, versions [,3.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-BTHOMEBLE-14830841
  • published1 Jan 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jan 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-757  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bthome-ble to version 3.15.1 or higher.

Overview

bthome-ble is a BThome BLE support

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade') due to insufficient enforcement of encryption requirements in the _parse_bthome_v1 and _parse_bthome_v2 functions in src/bthome_ble/parser.py. An attacker can impersonate a device by sending plaintext BLE advertisements when a bindkey is configured.

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CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1