CVE-2016-8102
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedUnquoted service path vulnerability in Intel Wireless Bluetooth Drivers 16.x, 17.x, and before 18.1.1607.3129 allows local users to launch processes with elevated privileges.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceUnquoted service path vulnerability in Intel Wireless Bluetooth Drivers allows local privilege escalation. When a service executable path contains spaces and isn't enclosed in quotes, Windows attempts to execute each space-separated word as a separate executable. Attackers can place malicious code in intermediate path directories to achieve SYSTEM-level execution.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 16.0= 17.0= 18.0= 18.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Intel Bluetooth servicesOpen Services (services.msc) and look for services with 'Intel' and 'Bluetooth' in the name, or run 'sc query type= service' and filter for Intel Bluetooth entriesAffected if A Windows service related to Intel Wireless Bluetooth exists on the system
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Check installed driver versionOpen Device Manager, expand 'Bluetooth', right-click the Intel Bluetooth device, select Properties, go to the Driver tab and note the Driver Version. Alternatively, check the Windows registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<BluetoothServiceName>Affected if The installed version matches 16.0, 17.0, 18.0, or 18.1 exactly
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Examine service binary path for quotesOpen Registry Editor, navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<IntelBluetoothServiceName>, locate the 'ImagePath' value, and examine if the executable path is enclosed in quotation marksAffected if The ImagePath value exists but does NOT have opening and closing quotation marks around the full path (e.g., path is C:\Program Files\Intel\...\btdaemon.exe instead of "C:\Program Files\Intel\...\btdaemon.exe")
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Verify intermediate path directories existIf the service path contains spaces and is unquoted, identify each directory in the path (e.g., for C:\Program Files\Intel\BT\bin\service.exe, check if C:\Program Files\, C:\Program Files\Intel\, and C:\Program Files\Intel\BT\ are valid directories)Affected if The path contains spaces and is unquoted, meaning Windows may attempt to execute files in intermediate directories as separate executables
A user is affected if they have Intel Wireless Bluetooth Drivers version 16.0, 17.0, 18.0, or 18.1 AND the service's ImagePath in the registry is unquoted and contains spaces.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate Intel Wireless Bluetooth Drivers to version 18.1.1607.3129 or later, or ensure the service path in the Windows registry is properly quoted if the vendor patch is unavailable.
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