routersploit

Lmao your response made me chuckle. You're entirely right! Probably nothing bad will happen. Especially if you partition your network like I mentioned in my OP. I would get worried about somehow enabling access to defects in my router by opening some inbound ports. I realize that's a little paranoid...but recently I have been playing around with https://github.com/threat9/routersploit and routinely find defects in consumer routers. Here's my other beef with cloudflare: Once I gotta pay 200+/mo for their security services or whatever, I could just rent out a private rack in a colocation and throw some old beefy lga-2011 xeon hosts. Now I don't need anything on my LAN exposed and I have dedicated IPs, physical security, and backup generators...etc.

some links that might be helpful. Router Security Checklist (contains a lot of links/references): https://routersecurity.org/checklist.php RouterSploit - Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices https://github.com/threat9/routersploit you may or may not want to look at recent research papers of SDN, Data/Control/-Plane security.

In the least abrasive way possible – If you're a self-described 'noob', I feel like investigating router exploits is going to be more confusing than anything. Embedded devices can be quite different from what you're used to. With that out of the way – the Usage section of the README is pretty approachable and about as straightforward as router testing gets: https://github.com/reverse-shell/routersploit#usage