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Passengers Exposed to Hacking via Vulnerabilities in Airplane Wi-Fi Devices

Researchers have discovered two potentially serious vulnerabilities in wireless LAN devices that they say are often used in airplanes.

Researchers Thomas Knudsen and Samy Younsi of Necrum Security Labs identified the vulnerabilities in the Flexlan FX3000 and FX2000 series wireless LAN devices made by Contec, a Japan-based company that specializes in embedded computing, industrial automation, and IoT communication technology.

One of the security holes, CVE-2022-36158, is related to a hidden webpage that can be used to execute Linux commands on the device with root privileges. The device’s web-based management interface does not provide a link to this hidden page.

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