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CVE-2025-34251 (GCVE-0-2025-34251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-06 23:35
Modified
2025-10-24 23:03
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Tesla Telematics Control Unit (TCU) firmware prior to v2025.14 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. The TCU runs the Android Debug Bridge (adbd) as root and, despite a “lockdown” check that disables adb shell, still permits adb push/pull and adb forward. Because adbd is privileged and the device’s USB port is exposed externally, an attacker with physical access can write an arbitrary file to a writable location and then overwrite the kernel’s uevent_helper or /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug entries via ADB, causing the script to be executed with root privileges.
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Impacted products
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| Tesla | Telematics Control Unit (TCU) |
Version: * < 2025.14 |
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