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Dishwasher has Directory Traversal Bug

posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-make-the-Internet-squeaky-clean dept.

davidjohnpaul writes:

A directory traversal bug has been found in a Miele dishwasher. This allows access to arbitrary files on the dishwasher's Web server from unauthenticated users. It has been questioned whether appliance makers should be the ones connecting things to networks, since their lack of experience means there isn't even an official channel to report or fix security bugs. Miele are yet to comment.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:47PM (#486138) Journal

    The NSA may be one party that is quite happy about massive numbers of easily hackable IoT devices. They are beachheads into all kinds of networks.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:05PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @09:05PM (#486177)

    I believe the NSA prefers hard to hack devices, so they don't have to share the resource with script kiddies.