Security News > 2021 > September > Netgear fixes severe security bugs in over a dozen smart switches
Netgear has released firmware updates for more than a dozen of its smart switches used on corporate networks to address high-severity vulnerabilities.
The company fixed three security flaw that affect 20 Netgear products, mostly smart switches.
An advisory from Netgear on Friday informs that a new firmware version is available for some of its switches impacted by three security vulnerabilities that received severity scores between 7.4 and 8.8 on a scale of 10.
Netgear identifies the bugs as PSV-2021-0140, PSV-2021-0144, PSV-2021-0145, as tracking numbers have yet to be assigned.
A prerequisite for exploiting this bug is that the Netgear Smart Control Center feature be active.
Netgear calculated a severity score of 8.8 for this vulnerability, noting that an attacker should be on the local network to be able to exploit it.