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  • aaz's avatar
    aaz
    Virtuoso
    Oct 18, 2017

    Nevermind the Orbi, it's easily remedited by turning off FAST roaming at least until the issue is fixed in firmware - it's really all your other devices that connect via wifi that you need to worry about.

    • rhester72's avatar
      rhester72
      Virtuoso
      Oct 18, 2017

      That has not been confirmed.  It is still unknown for certain whether satellite-to-router connectivity can be compromised.

      • st_shaw's avatar
        st_shaw
        Master
        Oct 18, 2017

         

        According to the Netgear advisory linked by Steven_Belfast above:

        1. Your devices are only vulnerable if an attacker is in physical proximity to and within wireless range of your network.

        2. ...satellites are affected during a WPA-2 handshake that is initiated only when connecting or reconnecting to a router.

         

        Based on that, you are only vulnerable if someone is at your location and only when the satellites reconnect. That sounds like a small exposure to me.

         

        What's not clear, though, is whether clients connecting to Orbi are affected if the clients are patched but Orbi is not.