DEF CON 30. Hacking EFBs. Engine Performance

At DEF CON 30 this year we demonstrated some vulnerabilities in electronic flight bags and the potential impact on flight safety. There’s plenty more detail of EFB security issues here. As part of the Aerospace Village at DEF CON 30, we invited people to fly our flight sim under instruction from...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...

Database Integrity Vulnerabilities in Boeing’s Onboard Performance Tool

This post is released in a co-ordinated manner with Boeing. TL;DR: Security gaps in older, unprotected Windows desktop versions of Boeing’s Onboard Performance Tool OPT could make certain Electronic Flight Bags EFB more susceptible to attack. In particular, OPT’s use of plain text configuration...

Attacking EFB updates

Software So who actually develops the software installed on Electronic Flight Bags EFBs? The software can originate from a large range of sources: System software developers including the OS, drivers, firmware and utility The aircraft manufacturer for Installed & Portable EFB devices The airline...

Meet the Wiz Research team at fwd:cloudsec

We invite you to attend Wiz Research's four technical sessions as well as the Wiz party at Flight Club Boston...

CMC Electronics EFB breakout vulnerability

We’ve been finding vulnerabilities in electronic flight bags for a few years now. Disclosure response from the vendors involved has varied from excellent to radio silence. In every case we have tried extremely hard to engage with the vendors involved, even where we were ignored. We asked friendly...

abd-clam (>=0.10.0-dev0 <=0.12.1), adbc_core (=0.14.0) +290 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via arrow (>=0.16.0 <=5.5.0)

arrow CARGO version =0.16.0, =0.10.0-dev0, =0.6.0, =0.6.0, =0.2.0, =0.4.0, =0.3.0, =0.2.0, =2.0.0, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =0.2.0 - arrow-graph-core =0.1.0 - arrow-graph-git =0.1.0 and more Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-QGRP-8F3V-Q85P...

abd-clam (>=0.10.0-dev0 <=0.12.1), adbc_core (=0.14.0) +290 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via arrow (>=0.16.0 <=5.5.0)

arrow CARGO version =0.16.0, =0.10.0-dev0, =0.6.0, =0.6.0, =0.2.0, =0.4.0, =0.3.0, =0.2.0, =2.0.0, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =0.2.0 - arrow-graph-core =0.1.0 - arrow-graph-git =0.1.0 and more Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-H588-76VG-PRGJ...

747 Hackathon

As is probably clear from our blog and public talks aviation cyber security is an area of huge interest to us. Some of us are also light aircraft pilots, so the crossover of two of our loves makes for some fascinating research. Over the last few years we’ve managed to get access to several...

GHSA-8CW2-JV5C-C825 Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

It was discovered that the C++ implementation which underlies the R, Python and Ruby implementations of Apache Arrow 0.14.0 to 0.14.1 had a uninitialized memory bug when building arrays with null values in some cases. This can lead to uninitialized memory being unintentionally shared if Arrow...

Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory...

Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory...

This Week in Spring - May 10th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Im writing this from - I cant believe I get to say this - abroad! Im in London, UK! Now, this is not particularly noteworthy for those millions who already live here. But I dont live here. Im a visitor! I live in San Francisco. I had to fly here! On a plane! With other people!...

WordPress Flight Search Widget and Blocks plugin <= 1.1.0 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress Flight Search Widget and Blocks plugin versions = 1.1.0. Solution No patched version available...

WordPress Flight Search Widget and Blocks plugin <= 1.1.0 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress Flight Search Widget and Blocks plugin versions = 1.1.0. Solution No patched version available...

CVE-2022-24666

A program using swift-nio-http2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a network peer sending a specially crafted HTTP/2 frame. This attack affects all swift-nio-http2 versions from 1.0.0 to 1.19.1. This vulnerability is caused by a logical error when parsing a HTTP/2 HEADERS fram...

Ransomware attack on Swissport aviation firm causes flight delays

By Deeba Ahmed Swissport claims it "contained an IT security incident" referring to a ransomware attack that took place on February… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransomware attack on Swissport aviation firm causes flight delays...

Signiant flight 代码问题漏洞

Signiant flight is a unique utility from Signiant USA for optimizing the transfer of large data sets to and from the cloud. A security vulnerability in Manager+Agents before Signiant flight deck 15.1 allows XML External Entity XXE attacks...

RLSA-2022:0307 Moderate: java-1.8.0-openjdk security and bug fix update

The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Security Fixes: OpenJDK: Incomplete deserialization class filtering in ObjectInputStream Serialization, 8264934 CVE-2022-21248 OpenJDK: Insufficient URI checks in the XS...

java-1.8.0-openjdk security and bug fix update

An update is available for java-1.8.0-openjdk. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime...