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Easily exploited Netgear router flaw discovered

16 pointsby wgynover 8 years ago

2 comments

EJTHover 8 years ago
Its mind boggling how such important pieces of our infrastructure can be pwned with rediculus simple exploits. This is not the first shell injection bug found in consumer grade routers. Far from it. Sometimes I think that all these companies rely on interns for R&D.
tyingqover 8 years ago
Oh dear. The exploit is trivially easy: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gYy6CwD" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gYy6CwD</a><p>Even if only exploitable on the lan side, you could make a simple landing page, buy some cheap ads, and start your own botnet.