{"id":10394,"date":"2026-10-19T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/unpatched-broadcom-wi-fi-flaw-lets-attackers-in-range-run-code-as-root-on-routers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:13:05","slug":"unpatched-broadcom-wi-fi-flaw-lets-attackers-in-range-run-code-as-root-on-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/unpatched-broadcom-wi-fi-flaw-lets-attackers-in-range-run-code-as-root-on-routers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA flaw in Broadcom&#8217;s Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser\u00a0disclosed\u00a0on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password off the device\u00a0A flaw in Broadcom&#8217;s Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser\u00a0disclosed\u00a0on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password off the device\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA flaw in Broadcom&#8217;s Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser\u00a0disclosed\u00a0on October 16. He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/unpatched-broadcom-wi-fi-flaw-lets-attackers-in-range-run-code-as-root-on-routers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}