CVE-2018-1170 is a critical vulnerability affecting Volkswagen Customer-Link App 1.30 and HTC Customer-Link Bridge, allowing adjacent attackers to inject arbitrary Controller Area Network (CAN) messages due to a lack of protection against unauthorized firmware updates. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a severe risk with an adjacent attack vector, low attack complexity, and no authentication required, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:htc:customer-link_bridge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:volkswagen:customer-link:1.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.