CVE-2018-18203
A vulnerability in the update mechanism of Subaru StarLink Harman head units 2017, 2018, and 2019 may give an attacker (with physical access to the vehicle's USB ports) the ability to rewrite the firmware of the head unit. This occurs because the device accepts modified QNX6 filesystem images (as long as the attacker obtains access to certain Harman decryption/encryption code) as a consequence of a bug where unsigned images pass a validity check. An attacker could potentially install persistent malicious head unit firmware and execute arbitrary code as the root user.
Published:Nov 28, 2018
Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
EPS:Nov 28, 2018
EPSS Score:0.00017
CVSS Score:6.4
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2017
Subaru
Starlink 2017
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2017 Firmware
Subaru
Starlink 2017 Firmware
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2018
Subaru
Starlink 2018
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2018 Firmware
Subaru
Starlink 2018 Firmware
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2019
Subaru
Starlink 2019
Vendor
Subaru
Product
Starlink 2019 Firmware
Subaru
Starlink 2019 Firmware
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
