Security flaws in Universal Plug and Play expose million devices

Jan. 30, 2013

Over 80 million unique IPs were identified that responded to UPnP discovery requests from the internet. The risk is an attacker could “execute arbitrary code on the device or cause a denial of service,”, it could install malware on victim’s computer. Rapid7 has also provided a free vulnerability scanner, ScanNow UPnP, that can identify exposed UPnP endpoints in your network.