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Message-Id: <20151018203544.8E83540555@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:35:44 +0200
From: alendal@....hush.com
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] Western Digital - My Passport / My Book self-encrypting
	external hard drive series - Multiple vulnerabilities


Research overview:
==========================
Research on Western Digital wide-spread self-encrypting hard drive series "My Passport" / "My Book".
Devices researched utilizes mandatory HW AES encryption.

Authors:
==========================
Gunnar Alendal
Christian Kison
modg

Paper and presentation links:
==========================
Full paper at Cryptology ePrint Archive:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1002.pdf

Presentation slides, based on research paper:
http://hardwear.io/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/got-HW-crypto-slides_hardwear_gunnar-christian.pdf

Vulnerabilities disclosed:
==========================
Multiple vulnerabilities, including:
* Multiple authentication backdoors, bypassing password authentication
* AES factory key recovery attacks, exposing user data on all affected devices, regardless of user password
* Exposure of HW PRNGs used in cryptographic contexts
* Unauthorized patching of FW, facilitating badUSB/evil-maid attacks

Vendor notification:
==========================
The vendor has been informed of the research.

Patches:
==========================
The authors are not aware of any fixes.

Architectures researched:
==========================
USB Bridge Vendor - Chip model - Architecture
===============
 JMicron - JMS538S - Intel 8051
 Symwave - SW6316 - Motorola M68k
 PLX - OXUF943SE - ARM7
 Initio - INIC-1607E - Intel 8051
 Initio - INIC-3608 - ARC 600
 JMicron - JMS569 - Intel 8051
===============



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