Analysis of Vulnerabilities of IoT-Devices and Methods of Their Elimination

Abstract

Relevance and the problem setting: at present, vulnerabilities in the firmware of IoT-devices pose a serious threat, as attackers, who at first have exploited the vulnerabilities, gain remote access to devices which allows them to form botnets that are then used to capture new devices or organize serious DDos attacks. Therefore, currently, there is an urgent need to increase the effectiveness of vulnerability detection methods in the firmware. The purpose of this work is to analyze and define the term “vulnerability”, to provide the classification of vulnerabilities of IoT-devices, the causes of vulnerabilities of IoT-devices, to analyze the stages of vulnerability detection, and to present the example of a search algorithm for vulnerable IoT-devices.