Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
Posted Jan 20, 2020 1:53 UTC (Mon) by dcoles (subscriber, #80488)Parent article: Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
If you're wondering how this can be exploited, here's a webpage that can reliably crash my ARRIS SB6183 cable modem with one click: http://kria.dcoles.net/cablehaunt/
I have the attack behind a push-button, but absolutely nothing stops the same attack being launched as soon as a malicious page is opened.