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punsk
Aspirant
Oct 24, 2016
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Avast Mac Security reports vulnerability on my Nighthawk R7000

Avast Mac Security reports my R7000 is vulnerable to hackers. It reports vulnerability ID CVE-2015-0932. I have tried to forward port 80 to an unused IP address and rebooted the router, but the probl...
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    ElaineM
    Nov 21, 2016

    Hi All,

     

    We have confirmed with Avast regarding the error and it's a false positive information. 

    Avast is looking into it to fix it on their side.

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ElaineM
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 26, 2016

punsk Can you post a screenshot? 

 

 

JohnMcEng Are you also using Mac and using the latest firmware? 

 

Edit:  Also, what's the exact version of your Avast and which Mac OS?

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punsk
Aspirant
Nov 01, 2016

Here is a screenshot. It's in Norwegian, but translates to something like this:

 

"User data can be executed as a command.

 

The unit is vulnerable for hacker attacks. You can find more information with the vulnerability ID. Upgrading the unit's software or firmware may solve the problem. Find out more (link: https://help.avast.com/en/av_mac_free/11/hns/alert_vulnerable_router.html )

 

Vulnerability ID: CVE-2015-0932"

 

screenshot avast.png

 

My Avast version is 11.18 (46914)

 

I use Mac OS 10.11.6.

 

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    ElaineM
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Nov 02, 2016

    Let me forward this to our engineering team.
    Will provide feedback as soon as I got an update.