Publication detail

Security of remote management of embedded systems running MikroTik RouterOS operating system using proprietary protocols

JÍLEK, T. ŽALUD, L.

Original Title

Security of remote management of embedded systems running MikroTik RouterOS operating system using proprietary protocols

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper deals with proprietary communication protocols that are implemented in the MikroTik RouterOS operating system. These communication protocols are specially designed for remote management of embedded systems that run with this operating system. These protocols are closed and thus they have not a publicly accessible documentation. In this paper the principles of their functions that are identified on the basis of realized communication analyses are described. Security risks that are associated with the use of these communication protocols are also analyzed in the paper. Attack that uses conceptual bug in the design one of these communication protocols is demonstrated on a real example. Full and unlimited access to embedded system that runs with this operating system can be obtained with this attack.

Keywords

security analysis, communication protocols, communication networks, remote management, operating systems, embedded systems

Authors

JÍLEK, T.; ŽALUD, L.

RIV year

2012

Released

23. 5. 2012

Publisher

IFAC-PapersOnLine / Elsevier

Location

10344 Virginia Lee Dr. Centerville, OH 45458, USA

ISBN

978-3-902823-21-2

Book

Proceedings of 11th IFAC/IEEE International Conference on Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems

Edition

2012

Pages from

138

Pages to

142

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT92956,
  author="Tomáš {Jílek} and Luděk {Žalud}",
  title="Security of remote management of embedded systems running MikroTik RouterOS operating system using proprietary protocols",
  booktitle="Proceedings of 11th IFAC/IEEE International Conference on Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems",
  year="2012",
  series="2012",
  pages="138--142",
  publisher="IFAC-PapersOnLine / Elsevier",
  address="10344 Virginia Lee Dr.
Centerville, OH 45458, USA",
  isbn="978-3-902823-21-2"
}