CVE-2020-15912
** DISPUTED ** Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a...
Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a legitimate key card, and then using NFC Relay. NOTE: the vendor has developed Pin2Drive to mitigate this issue
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a legitimate key card, and then using NFC Relay. NOTE: the vendor has developed Pin2Drive to mitigate this issue
- Record
CVE-2020-15912- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.3 Low
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a legitimate key card, and then using NFC Relay. NOTE: the vendor has developed Pin2Drive to mitigate this issue
- Record
CVE-2020-15912- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-7884 No score
Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a legitimate key card, and then using NFC Relay. NOTE: the vendor has developed Pin2Drive to mitigate this issue
- Record
EUVD-2020-7884- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-27c3-9rq9-x65x
** DISPUTED ** Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a...
** DISPUTED ** Tesla Model 3 vehicles allow attackers to open a door by leveraging access to a legitimate key card, and then using NFC Relay. NOTE: the vendor has developed Pin2Drive to mitigate this issue.
- Record
GHSA-27c3-9rq9-x65x- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-15912 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Tesla Model 3 Firmware, published July 23, 2020. Its validity is disputed. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.19%, the 68th percentile.
References
cansecwest.com/post/2020-03-09-22:00:00_2020_Speakers
youtube.com/watch?v=kQWg-Ywv3S4
twitter.com/Kevin2600/status/1218892338182836224
carhackingvillage.com/speaker-bios
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15912
github.com/advisories/GHSA-27c3-9rq9-x65x