Hacking the airport X-ray machine: 11 vulnerabilities in the most popular airport scanner.🧳🩻👨🏻💻✈️😈
Security researcher Felix Zuber shares his hands-on experience and findings from the penetration testing of a Smiths Detection HI-SCAN 6040i X-ray machine. I bet you’ve seen it in airports more than once! :)
The entire process - from analysis, threat modeling, and attack vector mapping to exploitation and the list of discovered vulnerabilities. AFAIK - It’s the first known public pentest of an airport X-ray scanner.
Enjoy the read! Feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues, and please do not attempt to attack these devices without prior written permission.
More details:
Hacking the airport X-ray machine [PDF]: https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1876534/FULLTEXT01.pdf
