Tales from a Penetration Testing Team: Insights from zero-day automotive vulnerabilities

High severity zero-day vulnerabilities are common in multiple types of ECUs, including TCUs, BCMs, instrument clusters, airbags and other safety-critical systems.

This whitepaper presents four software vulnerabilities discovered by PlaxidityX’s research team in bona fide production components, and offers practical guidance to security analysts for building effective risk mitigation strategies.

You’ll get under the hood insights into each zero-day vulnerability, including:

• Analysis of the bugs and security misconfigurations that caused the vulnerability
• What ECU developers can do to avoid similar vulnerabilities in the future
• Recommended tools and process improvements to harden the development process