Armis researchers have discovered 11 vulnerabilities (including 6 critical RCE flaws) in Wind River VxWorks, a real-time operating system used by more than two billion devices across industrial, medical and enterprise environments.
Collectively dubbed “Urgent11”, they are estimated to impact SCADA systems, elevators, industrial controllers, patient monitors and MRI machines, as well as firewalls, routers, satellite modems, VOIP phones and printers.
About Wind River VxWorks
VxWorks is a real-time operating system (RTOS), i.e., an OS that processes data and performs applications’ tasks within a strictly defined (extremely short) time.
This type of OS is mostly used in mission-critical devices and networking equipment, where speed, accuracy, response predictability and reliability are paramount.
“First released in 1987, VxWorks is one of the most mature operating systems still widely in use, and ma ..
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