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Vulnerability Scan - Port 23 Open
According to the manual, the default Inbound rule is Block All; however, when I ran NMap TCP Connect Scan against the WAN IP, I was shocked to see some ports open. Does this mean that PCs in the same ...
I ran another isolated test (not from the LAN side) and the result is the same. Standard port scanning will show no ports are open, but hen TCP connect scan was performed, ports 23, 443, 80 showed as open.
The worst part was I can telnet and access the Wewb administration page from the WAN side which makes it vulnerable for exploit.
Here's the same issue with another Netgear product:
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-2439/
I have to create an inbound rule to block incoming traffic for ports 23, 443, and 80 as a workaround.
I hope this will be addressed soon.
The worst part was I can telnet and access the Wewb administration page from the WAN side which makes it vulnerable for exploit.
Here's the same issue with another Netgear product:
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-2439/
I have to create an inbound rule to block incoming traffic for ports 23, 443, and 80 as a workaround.
I hope this will be addressed soon.
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