Critical Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers to Disrupt Traffic Lights

guest · Jun 7, 2020

Critical Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers to Disrupt Traffic Lights
June 5, 2020
https://www.securityweek.com/critic...d-have-allowed-hackers-disrupt-traffic-lights

SWARCO is an Austria-based company that specializes in traffic management, traffic safety, road marking and other solutions typically found in smart cities. Its products have been deployed in over 70 countries around the world.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-12493 with a CVSS score of 10, was reported to the vendor in July 2019 and a patch was provided by SWARCO to customers in April. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Germany’s VDE CERT recently published advisories for the vulnerability.
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The affected SWARCO controller runs BlackBerry’s QNX real-time operating system and it’s designed to control traffic lights in one intersection. The system had a debug port open, which granted root access over the network without a password, allowing an attacker to remotely shut down or manipulate impacted controllers.

“As we move to smart cities the industry faces new challenges with respect to hardening their system against intentional and untargeted security threats. Embedded controllers not only run traffic lights but also lighting systems, heating and cooling, elevators, doors and many other automated systems which affect a large number of people. [...]”
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SAustn2 · Jun 7, 2020

I swear if people didn't have a device in their hand at all times they would be lost. How were traffic signals controlled before the computer age? If they went back to that method maybe lazy hackers would have to climb poles and actually get some exercise to disable traffic signals. Could help with obesity issues, maybe.

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