By Eduard Kovacs on October 29, 2014 A researcher has identified a flaw that can be exploited to trick certain ASUS wireless routers into updating their firmware to old or potentially malicious versions.
In a blog post published on Tuesday, security researcher David Longenecker revealed that ASUS routers of the RT series are plagued by the flaw, which has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-2718.
The list of affected devices includes RT-AC68U, RT-AC68U, RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT-AC56R, RT-AC56U, RT-N66R, RT-N66U, RT-N56R, and RT-N56U. However, according to the expert, RT-N53, RT-N14U, RT-N16 and RT-N16R could also be impacted since they use the same firmware base.
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Vulnerability Found in Firmware Update Process of ASUS Routers
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