This vulnerability allows adjacent attackers to inject arbitrary Controller Area Network messages on vulnerable installations of…

Description

This vulnerability allows adjacent attackers to inject arbitrary Controller Area Network messages on vulnerable installations of Volkswagen Customer-Link App 1.30 and HTC Customer-Link Bridge. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Customer-Link App and Customer-Link Bridge. The issue results from the lack of a proper protection mechanism against unauthorized firmware updates. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to inject CAN messages. Was ZDI-CAN-5264.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.78% · top 44% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• CWE-693-Protection Mechanism Failure (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-693 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Volkswagen · Volkswagen Customer-Link App

  • affected 1.30

References (1)

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-1170](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-1170.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-1170)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 03:51 UTC.