Linksys Velop port forwarding bug! /warning!/

[Freddell]

My Linksys Velop MX4200 with firmware 1.0.13.210200 have a peculiar problem.
I use single port forwarding to reach internal services from outside and have been doing that for many years with different linksys products. Starting with this velop firmware, if I enable a forwarding of port 443, I can no longer reach the https:// router admin interface from internal clients. Ports should only be forwarded from ""EXTERNAL" hosts, not internal..
First I thought I had been hacked, and it took me a very long time and many restarts to figure out what was going wrong..
I have tried chatting with Linksys support but they did not offer any reasonable acknowledgement.
The only way I could log in and remove the 443 forwarding was using the Linksys mobile app connected to the internal wifi. Anyone with similar Velops that can duplicate my finding?

 

[CharlesNibur]

I've been searching everywhere for an answer to this.
I can confirm, I've been suddenly unable to access the admin panel of my Velop. After finding no clear answers, I reset my network. The moment I entered the 443 port forward I was forced out of the app and I cannot get back to it.
This is not the first time Linksys has pushed an update which bricked working functionality of my router.

 

[glens]

This is not the first time Linksys has pushed an update which bricked working functionality of my router.

(Or fixed previously-not-functioning-properly behavior which you'd been putting to purposeful use?)

 

[spvedula]

I've been searching everywhere for an answer to this.
I can confirm, I've been suddenly unable to access the admin panel of my Velop. After finding no clear answers, I reset my network. The moment I entered the 443 port forward I was forced out of the app and I cannot get back to it.
This is not the first time Linksys has pushed an update which bricked working functionality of my router.

I had almost same issue. I want to forward ports 80 and 443 to another internal server, so I was searching for their default web management port and couldnt find it. Many of other linksys routers had this option, and not having this in such 400$+ mesh system is CRAZY...

 

[palmaholic]

Unfortunately, it seems like accessing Admin UI thru the mobile app is the only mean when you port-forward port 443.

 

[spvedula]

Linksys support confirmed they use 443 and 80. I opened an incident with them. Waiting to hear back. All they have to do is - simply allow Remote Management port to be changed to something else - an implementation that existed in their other linksys routers...

 

[palmaholic]

Linksys support confirmed they use 443 and 80. I opened an incident with them. Waiting to hear back. All they have to do is - simply allow Remote Management port to be changed to something else - an implementation that existed in their other linksys routers...

All they need to do is to introduce custom ports for HTTP and HTTPS.

 

[Rickc]

I have the same issue.... But I can't even use the app...

I put in a support ticket to Linksys.... and saved the transcript....all we can do is that, and maybe wait a few weeks and tweet out to inquire as to the status....

has anyone tried using port 8443? I may play with it to see if its a solid workaround

 

[Rickc]

As far as workarounds,

I guess we can flash our routers with OpenWRT

[OpenWrt Wiki] Linksys WHW03 V2

openwrt.org

or another workaround I've been toying with is using 443 for my home server and a reverse proxy and port forwarding 8443 to my router. So I can access my router using 192.x..x.x:8433

I hope that helps anyone who comes across this

 

[jaxd]

Has anyone received any updates for this issue. Recently installed a new Velop setup issues after days and continued troubleshooting and network changes to discover this is a bug from the seems of it.