---
id: 6574
title: "Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program"
source_domain: samcurry.net
source_url: "https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program"
published_at: "2019-07-14T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["ai-security", "bug-bounty", "xss", "blind-xss", "tesla", "automotive-security", "model-3", "samcurry-net"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6574"
lang: en
---

# Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

## Summary

A blind XSS payload left in a Tesla Model 3's 'Name Your Vehicle' field fired months later from an internal tool when support handled a windshield repair—earning a $10,000 bounty from Tesla.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** samcurry.net
- **Published:** 2019-07-14T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6574