{"id":163902,"date":"2023-05-15T00:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cisa-warns-of-critical-ruckus-bug-used-to-infect-wi-fi-access-points"},"modified":"2023-05-15T00:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:25:59","slug":"cisa-warns-of-critical-ruckus-bug-used-to-infect-wi-fi-access-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cisa-warns-of-critical-ruckus-bug-used-to-infect-wi-fi-access-points","title":{"rendered":"CISA warns of critical Ruckus bug used to infect Wi-Fi access points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisa-warns-of-critical-ruckus-bug-used-to-infect-wi-fi-access-points2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel actively exploited by a recently discovered DDoS botnet.<\/p>\n<p>While this security bug (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-25717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2023\u201325717<\/a>) was addressed in early February, many owners are likely yet to patch their Wi-Fi access points. Furthermore, no patch is available for those who own end-of-life models affected by this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers are abusing the bug to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/critical-ruckus-rce-flaw-exploited-by-new-ddos-botnet-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\">infect vulnerable Wi-Fi APs<\/a> with AndoryuBot malware (first spotted in February 2023) via unauthenticated HTTP GET requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel actively exploited by a recently discovered DDoS botnet. While this security bug (CVE-2023\u201325717) was addressed in early February, many owners are likely yet to patch their Wi-Fi access points. Furthermore, no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}