By Ionut Arghire on September 22, 2021
A security vulnerability in Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHO) routers from Netgear could be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely as root, according to security researchers at consulting firm GRIMM.
Located in the updated process of the Circle Parental Control Service on multiple Netgear router models, the security bug is tracked as CVE-2021-40847 and can be exploited by an attacker on the same network as the vulnerable device to gain code execution as root via a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.