Have you changed your broadband router password recently or ever? Now is the time, security experts warn.
Update, Oct. 02, 2024: This story, originally published Sept. 30, now includes new research regarding 14 new router vulnerabilities, including a ten out of ten severity issue.
“Cybercriminals take advantage of bugs and vulnerabilities in firmware, to gain access to your online information,” Oliver Devane, a senior security researcher at McAfee, said, “keeping the firmware up to date with the latest security patches will prevent this from happening.
CVE-2020-15415, meanwhile, impacts Vigor3900, Vigor2960, and Vigor300B routers from DrayTek. The vulnerability allows for remote code execution via shell metacharacters within a filename when a text/x-python-script content type is used. CISA recommends applying mitigations as instructed by the vendor. FurtherNew research published on October 2 from the Vedere Labs at Forescout Research has disclosed 14 more vulnerabilities impacting DrayTek’s routers.
The “GetCGI” function in the Web UI, responsible for retrieving HTTP request data, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing the query string parameters.
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