CVE-2019-19560 — An authentication bypass in the debug interface in Mercedes-Benz HERMES 1

An authentication bypass in the debug interface in Mercedes-Benz HERMES 1.5 allows an attacker with physical access to device hardware to obtain system information.

01What is this vulnerability?

An authentication bypass in the debug interface in Mercedes-Benz HERMES 1.5 allows an attacker with physical access to device hardware to obtain system information.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-11-15T23:41:34.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:16:48.322Z

09References

• skygo.360.cn — https://skygo.360.cn/archive/Security-Research-Report-on-Mercedes-Benz-Cars-en.p…
• media.daimler.com — https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Mercedes-Benz-and-360-Gro…