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brycewade
Jan 13, 2020Follower
Firmware upgrade for Cable Haunt vulnerability on CM1000?
With the recent announcment of the Cable Haunt vulnerability (see https://cablehaunt.com/) and the inclusion of the CM1000 modem on the list of affected devices, is there an updated firmware availabl...
geitznhof
Jan 19, 2020Aspirant
I tried to add an outbound service block on 192.168.100.1:8080 as a workaround for Cable Haunt but I get an error that this is an invalid address. I don't understand how any address at 192.168.x.x is invalid. I thought I bought a good enough router that I could apply any reasonable security option needed. I read a possible alternative is a "Blackhole" port forward but I'm pretty sure Netgear is going to block that too. Any suggestions for this router, or do I need to make a change to Asus or Synology?