Dd-wrt r8500
The following points are from a great article by Bas van Schaik: A temporary fix for CERT VU#582384 (CWE-77) vulnerability for Netgear R7000 and R6400 routers.įirst off, he offers a totally non invasive test for this vulnerability. In addition, he confirms that the previously reported R6400, R7000 and R8000 are vulnerable. Nighthawk Smart WiFi Router with MU-MIMO (Model R7000P) Nighthawk X4 AC 2350 Dual Band WiFi Router (Model R7500) Nighthawk X4S Smart WiFi Gaming Router (Model R7800) Nighthawk X8 Tri-Band WiFi Router (Model R8500) Lots of additional information on this Reddit thread. For example, the same flaw was reported in July 2009 in DD-WRT.Īlso, Kalypto Pink has tested many other Netgear routers and reports that the Nighthawk models listed below are also vulnerable. Also, he emailed Netgear, informing them of this flaw, back on August 25, 2016. Verified, via Twitter, with that this flaw can be exploited by an un-authenticated attacker. This method of attack is not related to Remote Administration (a.k.a. However, a more thorough attacker may be able to learn your LAN-side IP address and then scan your network looking for the router. If the attacker is lazy, then, as I suggested above, assigning the router a non-standard IP address, offers some defense. The flaw allows for many commands and total takeover of the router. As before, 1.2.3.4 represents the LAN side IP address of the router. The technique, abusing an HTML IMG tag to issue a command to the router, has been seen many times before. The video referenced above shows how vulnerable routers can be infected by loading a malicious web page or advertisement. Acew0rm1 claims that Netgear was informed of this four months ago. The flaw is remotely exploitable, see below for how.ĥ. Yes, there is a semi-colon just before "reboot." If this reboots the router, it is vulnerable.Ĥ. Where 1.2.3.4 is the LAN side IP address of your router.
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My 2013 blog, Find the IP address of your home router, shows how to do this from Windows, iOS, Android, OS X and Chrome OS. is vulnerable."Ģ. Twitter user Acew0rm1 has released a short YouTube video about the flaw he discovered.ģ. The video shows that you can test for the flaw from the LAN side of a router. First, you need to know the IP address of your router. CERT has updated their advisory to say that "Community reports also indicate the R8000. All router vendors walk away from old models, all we can hope for, is that they are honest about it.ġ. Their ReadySHARE Product Vulnerability Advisory listed many vulnerable routers that were End-Of-Life (EOL) and thus would not be patched. On the last issue, Netgear performed well in regard to the NetUSB flaw back in May 2015. Do they admit that some vulnerable routers will not be patched?.How quickly is updated firmware released?.Do they offer any work-arounds to mitigate the problem before updated firmware is available?.
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Do they offer a full accounting of which models are vulnerable and which are not?.
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It's available on iOS, Android, Windows and OS X. In addition, older Netgear advisories have suggested checking the NETGEAR genie App for updated firmware. This means registering the router with Netgear and subscribing to their Security Advisory Newsletter. If nothing else, Netgear owners should do what they can to be notified about new firmware.