CVE-2017-17435 describes a critical vulnerability in Vaultek Gun Safe VT20i products, dubbed "BlueSteal," allowing remote unlocking without a valid PIN. An attacker within Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) range can bypass authentication by sending a crafted authorization request, as the safe fails to verify the provided PIN. This flaw carries a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), indicating a severe risk with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media attention, including an article from BleepingComputer.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vaulteksafe:vt20i_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.