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Netgear routers are at risk of getting hacked: What to do
Netgear this week has pushed out a passel of patches for its home networking gear, covering seven modem-router gateways, one range extender and 40-odd routers, including some Nighthawk models and Orb...
I agree entirely with this analysis, and did the same thing. My frustration is with the Netgear "Chicken Little" press release. "Vulnerable! Vulnerable! Must upgrade to the March, 2020 security update."
So with regards to the Orbi's it lists:
- RBR20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBS20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBK20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBR40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBS40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBK40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBR50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBS50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBK50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
So it appears then that if you have 2.3.5.30 or higher, like 2.5.1.8 you should be good.
theoak wrote:So with regards to the Orbi's it lists:
- RBR20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBS20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBK20, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.26
- RBR40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBS40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBK40, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBR50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBS50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
- RBK50, running firmware versions prior to 2.3.5.30
So it appears then that if you have 2.3.5.30 or higher, like 2.5.1.8 you should be good.
Yes. Good. Scared the crap out of people for no good reason.
