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FortiGuard Labs Threat Research
Summary In March 2015, a Network Configuration Leak vulnerability was disclosed to Ring as part of FortiGuard's Responsible Disclosure process. The vulnerability existed on their first internet-connected doorbell, Doorbot v1.0 but other posts on the subject show that the vulnerability was ported on newer versions of the connected doorbell as well. The vulnerability had been granted CVE-2015-4400: DoorBot Network Configuration Leak. We have issued an Advisory and IPS signatures (DoorBot.Network.Configuration.Leak) for the same. We...