CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-28656
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-354
Description
The update functionality of the Discover Media infotainment system in Volkswagen Polo 2019 vehicles allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code because some unsigned parts of a metainfo file are parsed, which can cause attacker-controlled files to be written to the infotainment system and executed as root.
Affected configurations
• vw polo firmware 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value weakness
References
- https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/a-code-signing-bypass-for-the-vw-polo Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/a-code-signing-bypass-for-the-vw-polo Exploit, Third Party Advisory