Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Volkswagen Polo 2019 Discover Media Infotainment System

Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Volkswagen Polo 2019 Discover Media Infotainment System

CVE-2020-28656 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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