CVE-2022-42430: high-severity vulnerability in Tesla Model 3
Published · Updated
E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.4%
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected Tesla vehicles. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of the wowlan_config data structure. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-17543.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Tesla · Model 3Related CVEs — Tesla Model 3
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2022-3093HIGHCVE-2022-3093EPSS 0.4%CVE-2023-32156CRITICALTesla Model 3 Gateway Firmware Signature Validation Bypass VulnerabilityEPSS 0.4%CVE-2023-32157MEDIUMTesla Model 3 bsa_server BIP Heap-based Buffer Overflow Arbitrary Code Execution VulnerabilityEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-2082HIGHTesla Model 3 VCSEC Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityEPSS 0.4%CVE-2022-42431HIGHCVE-2022-42431EPSS 0.3%CVE-2025-6785MEDIUMTesla Model 3 Physical CAN Bus InjectionEPSS 0.2%