Study of home routers shows many unpatched and affected by vulnerabilities

mood · Jul 7, 2020

Study of home routers shows many unpatched and affected by vulnerabilities
Router companies named and shamed
July 7, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/85895...-many-unpatched-affected-vulnerabilities.html

Facepalm: Do you think your home router is secure? According to a new report, that belief might be far from accurate. It found that many popular devices are affected by hundreds of known vulnerabilities, and over a third have not received an update in the last year.

The study, carried out by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Communication (FKIE), involved 127 home routers from seven brands: AsusTek Computer Inc., Netgear Inc., D-Link Corp., Linksys, TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd., Zyxel Communications Corp., and AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH. It compared the most recent firmware versions from each router with known security vulnerabilities and found not one of them was flawless.

Out of the 127 routers, 46 had not received a single security update within the last year, while 22 had not received any in the last two years. The worst case had gone 1,969 days, more than five years, without security patches
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Despite around 90 percent of the routers using Linux, many manufacturers weren't updating the OS, with most still on kernel version 2.6 (or older), which last saw an update in February 2011.

"Our analysis shows that there is no router without flaws and there is no vendor who does a perfect job regarding all security aspects," reads the study's conclusion. "Much more effort is needed to make home routers as secure as current desktop or server systems."
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Study (PDF): "Home Router Security Report 2020"
https://www.fkie.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/fkie/de/documents/HomeRouter/HomeRouterSecurity_2020_Bericht.pdf

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