CVE-2021-1684: Microsoft Windows 10

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 20h2 only; version 1607 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; version 1909 only; …
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1: affected versions not specified
  • Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: affected versions not specified
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012: version r2 only
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 20h2 only; version 1909 only; version 2004 only
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.