Wi-Fi Inspector

[ron2]

Just re-installed Avast Pro after a clean re-install of W10 (due to hardware malfunction).  After several hours of uneventful activity, Avast pop-up "detected a new network".  I scanned it and Wi-Fi inspector flagged two devices with the same problem "UPNP: Service is vulnerable to attacks from within your network".  Under details it refers to Vulnerability ID: CVE-2012-5958 which, when I click on the link, tells me "Your router is vulnerable to network attacks".



So is it the router or the device?  And if the devices are vulnerable to attacks **within** my network, why is that an issue?

Both devices are rather old (one is a security cam; the other is a dish network satellite box with dvr) and probably have the last firmware released.  The router has the most up to date firmware release (less than a month ago), so if that is truly an issue, what, exactly, is the vulnerability being detected in the router so that I may inform the manufacturer>

Thank you.

[schmidthouse]

I can't tell you exactly what you problem could be, but I recall helping someone with their router hook up and settings, and scanned with Wi Fi Inspector and found  vulnerability; in that instance was a 'weak password'

[Asyn]

See: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5958