An impressive number of Netgear routers is affected by two flaws that can lead to password disclosure. It has been estimated that hundreds of thousand devices, potentially more than one million Netgear routers, could be hacked, by both a local or a remote attacker.
Simon Kenin, a security researcher at Trustwave, discovered the flaw and confirmed the vulnerabilities can be remotely exploited when the remote management option of the Netgear routers is enabled