Automotive Ethernet Fuzzing: Low-Cost Virtual Testbeds & Vulnerability Research
Researchers from Hyundai AutoEver present a low-cost virtual testbed for automotive Ethernet, fuzzing SOME/IP and DoIP protocol stacks to find ECU vulnerabilities.
Summary
The Transition from CAN Bus to Automotive Ethernet
Modern connected and autonomous vehicles increasingly adopt Automotive Ethernet (100BASE-T1) to support high-bandwidth sensor telemetry and infotainment communications.
Challenges in Automotive Protocol Vulnerability Research
Jonghyuk Song, Soohwan Oh, and Woongjo Choi explain the financial and physical barriers to conducting vehicle security research on real automotive hardware.
Building a Low-Cost Virtual Automotive Ethernet Testbed
The researchers demonstrate developing a modular virtual test environment emulating SOME/IP, DoIP, and AVB communication stacks.
Automated Fuzzing and ECU Vulnerability Discovery
The authors share fuzzing methodology results, demonstrating zero-day crash discoveries across automotive gateway and head unit firmware implementations.
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