Dear all,
We have submitted the paper “Disconnection attacks against LoRaWAN 1.0.X ABP devices” which has been accepted in the IEEE MetComNet 2020 conference. The paper is about IoT devices security, and as such is strongly related to WP6. We would like to acknowledge the SPARTA project. Please find the abstract below.

Best regards,
Giorgio Bernardinetti

Abstract - Previous research work has already documented vulnerabilities of LoRaWAN 1.0.x, in the form of Replay Attacks which may cause disconnection situations. To face (also) these concerns, modern network servers implement careful techniques to handle sequence numbers (frame counters) in the presence of unexpected/out-of-sequence messages. In this paper we show that, despite such patches, the problem of dis- connection attacks is still widely open. We document a number of new replay-type attacks which target ABP (Activation By Personalization) devices, namely devices which are deployed with an hard-coded set of session keys, and which may cause a range of disconnection situations, including extremely long term ones - the worst case being in the order of 232 message transmissions (hundreds/thousands years considering ordinary IoT rates). We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed attacks by analyzing its impact on three different LoRaWAN network server implementations (two well known open-source network servers, and a proprietary network server co-developed by us), and by experimentally demonstrate their practicality on two of said network servers (ours and ChirpStack). Finally, we discuss trade-offs and mitigation actions, though we remark that these attacks appear intrinsic in the LoRaWAN 1.0.x specification, and can be ultimately fixed only by migrating to LoRaWAN 1.1.

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Giorgio Bernardinetti
CNIT - National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications
Electronic Engineering Department University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
Phone: +39 06 7259 7773
Email: giorgio.bernardinetti@cnit.it
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