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Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 4.Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234.Situated at the beginning of the supply chain, developers and teams responsible for maintaining DDS can easily lose track of it, making this critical library an attractive target for attackers. DDS applications and affected sectorsĭDS and real-time publish-subscribe (RTPS) packets are used for mission-critical applications, connecting embedded systems as a reliable communication layer between sensors, controllers, and actuators. We also provide a summary of our research findings, as well as some short- and long-term mitigation procedures. Our research identified some of the critical industries that can potentially be affected in a compromise of the DDS protocol and their respective use cases.

This is in addition to other deployment issues in the DDS ecosystem that malicious actors could use for other illicit activities such as data theft and cyberespionage. We identified 13 new vulnerabilities from the six most commonly used implementations and one security gap in the standard’s specifications. In a collaborative study, our research “ A Security Analysis of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Protocol” looked at the security posture of DDS as a critical software component of industries’ supply chains. This technology ensures interoperability and fault-tolerance of public and private devices such as healthcare, railways, and automation systems, to robotics, spacecraft, and military machines, with growing usage as it responds to embedded systems’ and applications’ real-time requirements. The Data Distribution Service (DDS) drives thousands of systems every day as a middleware for machine-to-machine communication.
