Home routers are being hijacked using vulnerability disclosed just 2 days ago

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The early bird catches the worm. Unless the worm was early enough to hide.

On August 3, 2021 a vulnerability that was discovered by Tenable was made public. Only two days later, on August 5, Juniper Threat Labs identified some attack patterns that attempted to exploit this vulnerability in the wild. The vulnerability is listed as CVE-2021-20090.

Router firmware

Publicly disclosed computer security flaws are listed in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database. Its goal is to make it easier to share data across separate vulnerability capabilities (tools, databases, and services). Under the description of CVE-2021-20090 you will find:

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