Wi-Fi Inspector

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Just re-installed Avast Pro after a clean re-install of W10 (due to hardware malfunction). After several hours of uneventful activity, Avast pop-up “detected a new network”. I scanned it and Wi-Fi inspector flagged two devices with the same problem “UPNP: Service is vulnerable to attacks from within your network”. Under details it refers to Vulnerability ID: CVE-2012-5958 which, when I click on the link, tells me “Your router is vulnerable to network attacks”.

???

So is it the router or the device? And if the devices are vulnerable to attacks within my network, why is that an issue?

Both devices are rather old (one is a security cam; the other is a dish network satellite box with dvr) and probably have the last firmware released. The router has the most up to date firmware release (less than a month ago), so if that is truly an issue, what, exactly, is the vulnerability being detected in the router so that I may inform the manufacturer>

Thank you.

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I can’t tell you exactly what you problem could be, but I recall helping someone with their router hook up and settings, and scanned with Wi Fi Inspector and found vulnerability; in that instance was a ‘weak password’

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See: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5958