Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-118611 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-118611 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-118611?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.8, published 28 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Alpine iLX-F511.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-118611?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Restrict Bluetooth interactions with untrusted sources in proximity to the vehicle; disable Bluetooth or maintain distance from unknown devices when not actively pairing. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-118611 attacked?
- It is attacked with physical access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-118611?
- Check whether you run Alpine iLX-F511. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
Restrict Bluetooth interactions with untrusted sources in proximity to the vehicle; disable Bluetooth or maintain distance from unknown devices when not actively pairing.
Technical details
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the OBEX packet handler due to insufficient length validation of user-supplied data before copying to a heap buffer. An attacker within physical proximity can send a malicious Bluetooth OBEX packet without authentication to trigger the overflow and achieve code execution in the root context.
Affected products
- Alpine iLX-F511
Timeline
- 2026-02-04: disclosed: Vulnerability reported to vendor
- 2026-10-28: advisory: Coordinated public disclosure