CVE-2020-9306

HIGH

Tesla Solarcity Solar Monitoring Gateway < 5.46.43 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Title source: rule

Description

Tesla SolarCity Solar Monitoring Gateway through 5.46.43 has a "Use of Hard-coded Credentials" issue because Digi ConnectPort X2e uses a .pyc file to store the cleartext password for the python user account.

References (4)

[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/fireeye/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/FEYE-2020-0019/FEYE-2020-0019.md

View Writeup ZIP pw:eip

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/02/solarcity-exploitation-of-x2e-iot-device-part-one.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/02/solarcity-exploitation-of-x2e-iot-device-part-two.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 44.6%

Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-522 CWE-798

Status published

Affected Products (1)

tesla/solarcity_solar_monitoring_gateway < 5.46.43

Timeline

Published Feb 18, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026