{"id":248419,"date":"2018-02-12T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=248419"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:58:50","slug":"multiple-security-flaws-found-in-netgear-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248419-multiple-security-flaws-found-in-netgear-routers.html","title":{"rendered":"Multiple security flaws found in Netgear routers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trustwave has issued an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/Resources\/SpiderLabs-Blog\/Multiple-Vulnerabilities-in-NETGEAR-Routers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisory<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on security vulnerabilities in Netgear routers which have been patched in firmware updates.<\/p>\n<p>The bugs affect <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.netgear.com\/000045848\/Security-Advisory-for-Password-%20Recovery-and-File-Access-on-Some-Routers-and-Modem-Routers-PSV-2017-0677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17 router models<\/a><\/strong>, including the Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8, running firmware 1.0.2.86 or earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The security flaws were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Routers let you read any file from the device, provided the path to the file is known.<\/li>\n<li>Authentication bypass &#8211; trivial and affects all 17 routers.<\/li>\n<li>Command injection on some routers after authentication.<\/li>\n<li>Chained attack command injection &#8211; anyone can run commands as root by exploiting several vulnerabilities in sequence.<\/li>\n<li>Run commands as root when WPS is activated &#8211; 6 products affected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trustwave commended Netgear for its responsive and communicative PSIRT team.<\/p>\n<p>Patches for the issues above are available from Netgear.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/243940-netgear-unveils-gaming-router-with-ddos-protection.html\">Netgear unveils gaming router with DDoS protection<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trustwave has issued an advisory with Netgear to alert users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":191414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24264,20747],"class_list":["post-248419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-netgear","tag-trustwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248431,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248419\/revisions\/248431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}