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Netgear fixes a critical RCE that could allow to takeover Flagship Nighthawk routers

Netgear is warning users of a critical remote code execution flaw that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of its wireless routers.

Netgear has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to take over AC Router Nighthawk (R7800) hardware running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.68.

The advisory published by the vendor also includes two high-severity issues affecting Nighthawk routers, 21 medium-severity flaws, and one low-severity vulnerability.

The critical vulnerability, tracked as PSV-2019-0076, affects Netgear Nighthawk X4S Smart Wi-Fi Router (R7800) family.

“NETGEAR has released fixes for a unauthenticated remote code execution security vulnerability on the following product models:

  • R7800, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.68

NETGEAR strongly recommends that you download the latest firmware as soon as possible.” reads the advisory published by the vendor.”

The company did not disclose technical details of the vulnerability, it only recommended to apply the necessary patches.

Netgear also addressed a high-severity flaw in several Netgear routers, the vendor tracked the flaw as PSV-2018-0352. The vulnerability is a post-authentication command injection issue and impacts Nighthawk (R7800) routers running firmware prior to version 1.0.2.60.

The PSV-2018-0352 flaw affects tens of routers, including D6000, R6000, R7000, R8000, R9000 and XR500 family of Netgear hardware.

This week, the vendor also issued a security bulletin for the PSV-2019-0051 vulnerability, a pre-authentication command injection security issue that affects the following models:

  • R6400v2, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.4.84
  • R6700, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.8
  • R6700v3, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.4.84
  • R6900, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.2.8
  • R7900, running firmware versions prior to 1.0.3.10
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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, RCE)

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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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