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From the wired article: But they also found that the car’s infotainment system was using an out-of-date browser, which contained a four-year-old Apple WebKit v
by jlg23 11y ago
From the wired article:
But they also found that the car’s infotainment system was using an out-of-date browser, which contained a four-year-old Apple WebKit vulnerability that could potentially let an attacker conduct a fully remote hack to start the car or cut the motor. Theoretically, an attacker could make a malicious web page, and if someone in a Tesla car visited the site, could gain access to the infotainment system. “From that point, you’d be able to use a privilege escalation vulnerability to gain additional access and do the other stuff that we described,” Rogers says.
- cmiller1 11y ago> Theoretically Well, when they show, in practice, that such an attack is possible, then we can have news headlines about it. By presenting it like this so Tesla had to patch it to save face, I'm sure they just closed the loophole that would allow consenting car owners to modify their car's software. As a gear-head and life-long tinkerer, I WANT to be able to mess with my car.