Tuesday, March 19, 2024

FreeRTOS IoT OS Critical Vulnerabilities Affected Million of Smart Home & Critical Infrastructure Based IoT Devices

A critical Vulnerabilities that affected FreeRTOS TCP/IP Stack puts millions of IoT devices at risk and let attackers allows to compromise the Smart home devices and Critical Infrastructure Systems.

FreeRTOS is a  real-time operating system kernel for embedded devices that support various architectures such as  Altera Nios IIARM architecture, FujitsuMicrochip Technology, STMicroelectronics etc.

Vulnerabilities affected multiple Versions of operating systems including, FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), AWS FreeRTOS up to V1.3.1, WHIS OpenRTOS and SafeRTOS (With WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP components).

FreeRTOS and SafeRTOS have been used in a wide variety of industries: IoT, Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, and more.

Researchers addressed 13 Vulnerabilities that includes 4 Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, 1 Denial of service flaw, 7 Information leak flaw, and 1 other category.

CVEDescription
CVE-2018-16522Remote code execution
CVE-2018-16525Remote code execution
CVE-2018-16526Remote code execution
CVE-2018-16528Remote code execution
CVE-2018-16523Denial of service
CVE-2018-16524Information Leak
CVE-2018-16527Information Leak
CVE-2018-16599Information Leak
CVE-2018-16600Information Leak
CVE-2018-16601Information Leak
CVE-2018-16602Information Leak
CVE-2018-16603Information Leak
CVE-2018-16598Other

Above vulnerabilities allows an attacker to crash the device, leak information from the device’s memory, and remotely execute code on it, thus completely compromising it.

FreeRTOS was developed by Real Time Engineers Ltd but In November 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) took stewardship for the FreeRTOS kernel and its components.

In this caseAWS FreeRTOS focused to provide a fully enabled IoT platform for microcontrollers, by bundling the FreeRTOS kernel together with the FreeRTOS TCP/IP stack, modules for secure connectivity, over the air updates, code signing, AWS cloud support, and more.”

zLabs researchers found these vulnerabilities within FreeRTOS’s TCP/IP stack and in the AWS secure connectivity modules. The same vulnerabilities are present in WHIS Connect TCP/IP component for OpenRTOS\SafeRTOS.

Also zimperium team reported the vulnerabilities and collaborate with Amazon and release the patch for all the above vulnerabilities.

Also Read:

Torii Botnet – A New Sophisticated IoT Botnet Attack in Wide – More Powerful Than Mirai

Raise of IoT Botnets Responsible for Massive DDoS Attacks – Q2 2018 Threat Report

Half a Billion Enterprise IoT Devices are Vulnerable to DNS Rebinding Attack – A Remote Network Control Attack

Website

Latest articles

Researchers Hack AI Assistants Using ASCII Art

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to attacks, leveraging their inability to recognize prompts...

Microsoft Deprecate 1024-bit RSA Encryption Keys in Windows

Microsoft has announced an important update for Windows users worldwide in a continuous effort...

Beware Of Free wedding Invite WhatsApp Scam That Steal Sensitive Data

The ongoing "free wedding invite" scam is one of several innovative campaigns aimed at...

Hackers Using Weaponized SVG Files in Cyber Attacks

Cybercriminals have repurposed Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to deliver malware, a technique that...

New Acoustic Keyboard Side Channel Attack Let Attackers Steal Sensitive Data

In recent years, personal data security has surged in importance due to digital device...

Discontinued WordPress Plugin Flaw Exposes Websites to Cyber Attacks

A critical vulnerability was discovered in two plugins developed by miniOrange.The affected plugins,...

ShadowSyndicate Hackers Exploiting Aiohttp Vulnerability To Access Sensitive Data

A new Aiohttp vulnerability has been discovered, which the threat actor ShadowSyndicate exploits.Aiohttp...
Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

Mitigating Vulnerability Types & 0-day Threats

Mitigating Vulnerability & 0-day Threats

Alert Fatigue that helps no one as security teams need to triage 100s of vulnerabilities.

  • The problem of vulnerability fatigue today
  • Difference between CVSS-specific vulnerability vs risk-based vulnerability
  • Evaluating vulnerabilities based on the business impact/risk
  • Automation to reduce alert fatigue and enhance security posture significantly

Related Articles