CVE-2020-9306

HIGH 8.8CVE-2020-9306 · Published 18/02/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-9306 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting solarcity solar monitoring gateway (tesla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
solarcity solar monitoring gateway tesla	`≤ 5.46.43`	No fix yet

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

fireeye/Vulnerability-Disclosures · Third Party Advisory
fireeye.com/blog/threat-research.html · Third Party Advisory
fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/02/solarcity-exploitation-of-x2e-iot-device-part-one.html · Third Party Advisory
fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/02/solarcity-exploitation-of-x2e-iot-device-part-two.html · Exploit

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