I'm considering installing the UPnP daemon on some home/home office boxes, and 
I'm curious what the security issues are.
>From my own (simple) analysis, the worst that could happen is a malicious 
>application could ask for many, many (almost all?) of the ports above 1024 to 
>be routed to a machine, and that an external attacker might be able to use all 
>the port forwards to control said malicious program from the internet and 
>perhaps wreak havoc on the LAN net and maybe even the pfSense box (with a 
>keylogger and sniff the pw for the pfSense admin).

This is assuming I don't use the custom rules that I can specify. (which I 
could use to mitigate some of the damage)

Did I miss anything?
Thank you for your comments.

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