A high-severity remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2021-45388 has been discovered in the KCodes NetUSB kernel module, used by millions of router devices from various vendors. The vulnerability affects Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDiMAX, Dlink, and Western Digital. Some limitations may make it difficult to exploit the vulnerability, but the impact is broad and could be severe. Netgear released a security update to patch the vulnerability on December 14, 2021.”]