CVE-2025-34251 (GCVE-0-2025-34251)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-06 23:35 – Updated: 2026-05-15 11:15
VLAI
Title
Tesla Telematics Control Unit (TCU) < v2025.14 Authentication Bypass
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-07 15:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Tesla Telematics Control Unit (TCU) Affected: 0 , < 2025.14 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:o:tesla:tesla_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*
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