UAV Resilience Against Stealthy Attacks

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Main Authors: Amorim, Arthur, Taylor, Max, Kann, Trevor, Leavens, Gary T., Harrison, William L., Joneckis, Lance
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Published: 2025
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author Amorim, Arthur
Taylor, Max
Kann, Trevor
Leavens, Gary T.
Harrison, William L.
Joneckis, Lance
author_facet Amorim, Arthur
Taylor, Max
Kann, Trevor
Leavens, Gary T.
Harrison, William L.
Joneckis, Lance
contents Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depend on untrusted software components to automate dangerous or critical missions, making them a desirable target for attacks. Some work has been done to prevent an attacker who has either compromised a ground control station or parts of a UAV's software from sabotaging the vehicle, but not both. We present an architecture running a UAV software stack with runtime monitoring and seL4-based software isolation that prevents attackers from both exploiting software bugs and stealthy attacks. Our architecture retrofits legacy UAVs and secures the popular MAVLink protocol, making wide adoption possible.
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spellingShingle UAV Resilience Against Stealthy Attacks
Amorim, Arthur
Taylor, Max
Kann, Trevor
Leavens, Gary T.
Harrison, William L.
Joneckis, Lance
Cryptography and Security
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depend on untrusted software components to automate dangerous or critical missions, making them a desirable target for attacks. Some work has been done to prevent an attacker who has either compromised a ground control station or parts of a UAV's software from sabotaging the vehicle, but not both. We present an architecture running a UAV software stack with runtime monitoring and seL4-based software isolation that prevents attackers from both exploiting software bugs and stealthy attacks. Our architecture retrofits legacy UAVs and secures the popular MAVLink protocol, making wide adoption possible.
title UAV Resilience Against Stealthy Attacks
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17298