ASUS DEVICE DISCOVERY TOOL UPDATE

ASUS DEVICE DISCOVERY TOOL UPDATE

This service runs with root privileges and contains an unauthenticated command execution vulnerability, security researcher Joshua Drake, who found the vulnerability,� said on his GitHub account.Ĭontrolling routers for a hacker means being able to monitor and modify all incoming and outgoing traffic for every other device connected to those routers.Īsus has yet to release an update to fix the issue with the routers but there are some ways to block such exploits in the meantime until firmware updates are released. Routers are also easier to hack since they have no virus detection programs running on them. Routers are one of the most sought after target for hackers because once they compromise a router, they can get access to networks and get into other devices on the network. * They manage to get to any local computer that already has the malware on it. * They manage to connect to the LAN in one way or another * They manage to get into a device connected to the routers Hackers can’t make use of this flaw of the internet but they can control the routers if: Infosvr listens to packets that are sent to the router’s local are network interface over a UDO broadcast port 9999. Infosvr, the service running on the routers, is used by the Asus Wireless Router Device Discovery Utility tools and it is the source of this flaw. Wireless router models running the Asuswrt firmware are vulnerable to attacks where hackers can completely compromise the devices if the attack is launched from within the local networks of the routers. VULNERABLE FIRMWARE MAKES ASUS ROUTERS SUBJECT TO ATTACK.

Asus device discovery tool