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Cable network

It's Internet over DOCSIS (TV cable).

There are several modems you can use for DOCSIS, some of them mentioned here.

  • Technicolor TC4400 – DOCSIS 3.1

The Intel Puma 5/6/7 chipsets are vulnerable to the so-called "Puma bug". Do not buy these.

Further information:

The cable haunt vulnerability (CVE-2019-19494 is an exploit where an attacker sends malicious packets to your modem which can change settings.

Further information:

Mitigation

  • Technicolor TC4400: Block 192.168.100.1:8080/tcp from LAN. You may want to put the TC4400 in its own VLAN.
  • Last modified: 2024-07-05 14:30