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Vulnerabilities in AGA Total Control Electric Oven

posted by mrpg on Friday April 14 2017, @10:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the color-me-unimpressed dept.

butthurt writes:

Ken Munro of Pen Test Partners describes his investigation of the AGA Total Control oven, which can be controlled remotely with an app, via GSM. Munro found that:

  • the app uses HTTP rather than SSL
  • there was a potential for telephone numbers associated with the ovens to be enumerated
  • the app allowed passwords as short as five characters
  • "it would be trivial" to turn someone else's oven on and off
  • the control system could be misused to send SMS messages to mobile phones

According to the researcher,

Disclosure was a train wreck. We tried Twitter, every email address we could find and then rang them up. No response to any of the messages we left.

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