CVE-2020-28656 (GCVE-0-2020-28656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-16 03:55 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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