CVE-2018-18203

MEDIUM

Subaru StarLink Harman Head Units 2017-2019 - Unauthenticated Firmware Installation via Weak Signature Verification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/sgayou/subaru_starlink_research

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.9%
Attack Vector PHYSICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-347
Status published
Products (3)
subaru/starlink_2017_firmware
subaru/starlink_2018_firmware
subaru/starlink_2019_firmware
Published Nov 28, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026