USB Keyboard and Mouse Exploit in British Airways Entertainment System

CVE-2019-9019 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The British Airways Entertainment System, as installed on Boeing 777-36N(ER) and possibly other aircraft, does not prevent the USB charging/data-transfer feature from interacting with USB keyboard and mouse devices, which allows physically proximate attackers to conduct unanticipated attacks against Entertainment applications, as demonstrated by using mouse copy-and-paste actions to trigger a Chat buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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