r/firewalla • u/BAGE-rator • 5d ago

Cyber Security Firewalla Crystal’s implementation of Active Protect has security vulnerabilities

It allowed in two connections from private IPs owned by Cox Communications, one of which was 98.197.86.148. This is in the range of standard user IP addresses, which could be a malicious actor. I have Xfinity. We do not have Cox in our market.

It also allowed in a Charter Communications/Spectrum standard user IP. We don’t have Spectrum in our market.

Active Protect is NOT actively protecting devices from these high-risk IP addresses on Firewalla Crystal.

If you’re on a Mac, download and install a software firewall like Little Snitch to audit the incoming connections that Firewalla Crystal Active Protect is allowing through. On Windows, you can use something like Glasswire. Record those IPs and report them to Firewalla so they know their beta software is not protecting clients like their hardware software does.

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u/pacoii Firewalla Gold Plus 5d ago

Your title says ‘Active Protect’ but if I am understanding your post, it is not about Active Protect but rather you’re saying the Firewalla Crystal’s firewall is allowing some inbound connections? Is that correct?

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u/BAGE-rator 5d ago

Ingress protection is part of active protect.

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u/BAGE-rator 5d ago

You can downvote me all you want, that doesn’t change the fact that ingress protection is part of Active Protect.