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CVE-2022-42431

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-42431 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Tesla Model 3 vehicles and their firmware. The flaw, residing in the bcmdhd driver, stems from insufficient validation of user-supplied data lengths, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. While rated High severity (CVSS 7.8), exploitation requires prior privileged code execution on the target system. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there any evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2022.28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:tesla:model_3_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-22-1407
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry