March 24, 2023 By Ryan Naraine
Researchers at French offensive hacking shop Synacktiv have demonstrated a pair of successful exploit chains against Tesla’s newest electric car to take top billing at the annual Pwn2Own software exploitation contest.
Pwn2Own organizers confirmed the successful hacks exploited flaws in the Tesla-Gateway and Tesla-Infotainment sub-systems to “fully compromise” a new Tesla Model 3 vehicle.
The first Tesla hack, described as a TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) race condition, earned the hackers a $100,000 cash prize and ownership of the compromised car. Synacktiv said the Tesla Model 3 gateway was fully compromised from the ethernet network.
