CVE-2020-29438 describes a vulnerability in Tesla Model X vehicles manufactured before November 23, 2020, where key fobs accept firmware updates without proper signature verification. This allows an attacker to install malicious firmware capable of extracting an unlock code from the secure enclave. Rated 6.5 MEDIUM, the vulnerability has an adjacent attack vector (AV:A) and low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high confidentiality impact (C:H) without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2020-11-23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:tesla:model_x_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.