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Wulff's avatar
Wulff
Aspirant
Dec 09, 2020
Solved

Security vulnerability in Orbi RBR20?

Recently bought a RBR20 with one month Netgear Armor activated. Today I received messages from my Synology NAS that it blokked the RBR20 ipaddres because of to many wrong logon attempts. It seems N...
Christian_R's avatar
Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 09, 2020

Hi Wulff, 

 

May you check to see if your RBR20 is on the latest firmware. I would also recommend disabling Armor to see if you're still receiving the messages.

 

Christian 

Wulff's avatar
Wulff
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2020

Thanks Christian, Yes the router is at the latest level, automatically updated at install.

There is no option where I can influence any setting in Armor (at least I can't find one) so disabling would be difficult.

I will search in the forum if this is possible but I think not.

  • Wulff's avatar
    Wulff
    Aspirant
    Dec 10, 2020

    Looking for ways to logon via telnet, enable telnet via http://192.168.0.1/debug.htm

    then finding the right pid to kill bitdefender is not easy, which pid do I have to kill?