Attackers could take advantage of Flash and Universal Plug and Play to launch a man-in-the-middle attack on routers. Attack is not a Flash problem, says Petko Petkov, one of the researchers who first reported it. Petkov: Routers are interesting because of the MITM attack, but do you expect to see attacks on printers, digital home centers, etc. With the time these devices will become more prevalent in our homes, attacker will start exploiting the given opportunities.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2136841/q-a-with-author-of-new-upnp–flash-router-attack.html