CVE-2025-6785

Tesla Model 3 Physical CAN Bus Injection

State: Published
Severity: 4.7 Medium
Published: Sep 4, 2025
Updated: Sep 11, 2025
Reserved: Jun 27, 2025

Description

Securing externally available CAN wires can easily allow physical access to the CAN bus, allowing possible injection of specially formed CAN messages to control remote start functions of the vehicle. Testing completed on Tesla Model 3 vehicles with software version v11.1 (2023.20.9 ee6de92ddac5). This issue affects Model 3: With software versions from 2023.Xx before 2023.44.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:L/U:Amber	ASRG

Weaknesses

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CWE-1263 Improper Physical Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Model 3Tesla	2023.xx to before 2023.44Affected

References

https://asrg.io/security-advisories/cve-2025-6785/third-party-advisory

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