While Verizon said the fix has been fully deployed, a "small percentage" of customers apparently still needed to be patched as of April 5th. In a statement, the company said "We were recently made aware of three vulnerabilities related to login and password information on the Broadband Home Router Fios-G1100. As soon as we were made aware of these vulnerabilities, we took immediate action to remediate them and are issuing patches. We have no evidence of abuse and there is no action required of our consumers." If you have one of these routers in your house, then you should doublecheck the settings to make sure it's running firmware with a version number of 2.02 or higher. There's a blog post breaking down exactly how the researcher uncovered the issues and showing the exploit at work, so make sure that you're patched and then get educated. Update: The correct new firmware version number is 2.02, not 2.2.
Sprint has issued patches to the vulnerabilities on its FiOS based broadband routers , which were discovered by Tenable Research in December . The vulnerabilities could enable someone to control the network if they had the router installed and remote administration was enabled . Verizon customers owning the FiOS - G1100 model are advised to double - check their firmware is running version 2.02 or higher to ensure the patches are in place .