The update functionality of the Discover Media infotainment system in Volkswagen Polo 2019 vehicles allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code because some unsigned parts of a metainfo file are parsed, which can cause attacker-controlled files to be written to the infotainment system and executed as root.
Weakness
The product does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or “checksums” of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polo_firmware | Vw | 2019 (including) | 2019 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/145.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/463.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/75.html