Vulnerability CVE-2018-18203


Published: 2018-11-28   Modified: 2018-11-29

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-347

(Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Subaru -> Starlink 2017 firmware 
Subaru -> Starlink 2018 firmware 
Subaru -> Starlink 2019 firmware 

 References:
https://github.com/sgayou/subaru_starlink_research

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