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mcochris
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Jan 27, 2020

New Cable Haunt critical cable modem vulnerability

There's a new cable modem vulnerability called Cable Haunt that enables local and remote attackers to execute abitrary code on your cable modem. Through malicious communication with the modem, a buf...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 27, 2020

Been discussed already. 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Cable-Modems-Routers/Firmware-upgrade-for-Cable-Haunt-vulnerability-on-CM1000/m-p/1848053/highlight/true#M21253

 

Fix needs to come from Broadcom first, then NG will integrate it into FW, then pass this on to ISPs for additional testing before they push the fix to modems out in the field. 

 

The CM is a Intel chipset based modem. Not Broadcom. The CM700 would have been effected by the Puma vulnerability which I beleve has been patched.