CVE-2020-28656: Vw Polo Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Vw Polo Firmware: version 2019 only

Published 2020-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.