Serious security bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of cars

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Yuga Labs security researchers discovered serious vulnerabilities in Hyundai’s mobile apps and a smart vehicle platform used by multiple carmakers, both of which allowed hackers to remotely control several features.

The first issue was related to the MyHyundai and MyGenesis apps, which allow authenticated users to start, stop, lock, or unlock their vehicles.They discovered that the apps’ user validation was performed using the email address, included in the JSON body of POST requests.The researchers created a new account using their target’s email address with a control character added at the end.

After gaining access to an existing legitimate user’s account this way, they could use the app to unlock a Hyundai car that formed part of their experiment. The second major vulnerability was picked up in the SiriusXM vehicle telematics software used by over 15 car manufacturers — including BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lexus, Nissan, Subaru, and Toyota.After analysing the network traffic generated by Nissan’s app, the researchers discovered they could send forged HTTP requests to the endpoint with only the target’s vehicle identification number .

 

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