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by throwawaaarrgh 1322 days ago
Chargers use an open protocol called OCPP. There are several versions, and the older ones use XML and I would guess are likely targets for various attacks. The later ones with JSON are probably also vulnerable but with a smaller number of attacks.

There are many different implementations, and different charging vendors tend to have varying degrees of functionality, so I would expect a pretty wide assortment of vulnerable chargers (and backend servers). A lot of them also seem to only communicate via static IPs.