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Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
VE Commercial Vehicles' My Eicher telematics platform for Indian truck and bus fleets exposed unauthenticated internal APIs that listed hundreds of thousands of customers, users, vehicles, and OTP codes. By walking the API path, Eaton found open endpoints that returned user records, encrypted passwords, and a full OTP history since 2021, enabling account takeover by matching mobile numbers to OTPs or resetting passwords via API. This access allowed remote control and tracking of entire fleets and exposure of around 76,000 sensitive identity documents before the core vulnerability was fixed in November 2025 after repeated disclosure attempts.
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