Third Critical Bug Affects Netgear Smart Switches — Details and PoC Released

New details have been revealed about a recently remediated critical vulnerability in Netgear smart switches that could be leveraged by an attacker to potentially execute malicious code and take control of vulnerable devices. The flaw — dubbed "Seventh Inferno" CVSS score: 9.8 — is part of a trio ...

Netgear Smart Switches Open to Complete Takeover

Three severe Netgear vulnerabilities, codenamed Demon’s Cries, Draconian Fear and Seventh Inferno by the researcher that found them, affect 20 of the company’s managed smart switches and could allow an attacker to take them over. The bugs were patched on Friday with zero technical details made...

Patch now! Netgear fixes serious smart switch vulnerabilities

In a security advisory, NetGear has announced it has fixed three vulnerabilities in firmware updates for several network devices. Most of the affected products are smart switches, some of them with cloud management capabilities that allow for configuring and monitoring them over the web. One of t...

Critical Auth Bypass Bug Affect NETGEAR Smart Switches — Patch and PoC Released

Networking, storage and security solutions provider Netgear on Friday issued patches to address three security vulnerabilities affecting its smart switches that could be abused by an adversary to gain full control of a vulnerable device. The flaws, which were discovered and reported to Netgear by...