Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 2, 2015 @07:00AM from the that's-not-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have discovered a large number of zero-day flaws in 8 routers/modems from 4 manufacturers (ZTE, Huawei, Gemtek, Quanta) that would allow attackers to build a huge botnet by leveraging just a few exploits. Vulnerabilities include remote code execution, firmware rewrites, XSS, and CSRF. All these allow attackers to intercept both HTTP and HTTPS Web traffic, infect computers beyond the modem, intercept SMS messages, and detect the modem's geographical location. After six months, manufacturers have failed to fix the issues.

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Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users (softpedia.com)

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