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Cisco says its RV routers will no longer receive updates

Cisco announced it will no longer release firmware updates to fix 74 vulnerabilities affecting its RV routers, which reached end-of-life (EOL).

Cisco will no longer release firmware updates to address 74 vulnerabilities affecting some of its RV routers that reached end-of-life (EOL).

The vendor will not release updates for RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W devices the reached EOL in 2017 and 2018, but Cisco provided paid support until December 1, 2020.

The list of flaws affecting the devices includes RCEs, DoS issues, command injection vulnerabilities and XSS bugs.

Below the advisories published by the IT giant:

“Cisco has not released and will not release software updates to address the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.” reads the advisory. “The Cisco Small Business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W Routers have entered the end-of-life process. Customers are advised to refer to the end-of-life notices for these products:

In order to exploit the flaws, the attackers need to have credentials for the device.

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models)

The company is encouraging its customers to migrate to the Cisco Small Business RV132W, RV160, or RV160W Routers.

Cisco is not aware of attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities in the above advisories, it also added that the flaws are not simply exploitable.

“The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.” concludes Cisco.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cisco RV routers)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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