ENDLESSDOORS: Zbtlink Router rctl/kworker Phone-Home Root Implant
48Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 9.3epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 56% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Zbtlink router firmware ships an embedded remote-control implant, ENDLESSDOORS, present in every published build across the product line. It is the open-source ycsunjane/rctl tool built in as an OpenWrt package (librctl.so), started at boot and run as root under the process name kworker to blend in with the kernel's [kworker/*] threads. It opens no listening port; it phones home over cleartext TCP to a hardcoded command-and-control server (command channel 7000, interactive-shell callback 7001) with no authentication and no transport encryption, re-attempting contact roughly every 35 seconds. Its command handler passes any received string to popen() as uid=0, and a reserved rctlbash command returns an interactive root shell. Because the channel is unauthenticated and cleartext, control is not limited to whoever planted it: any party that answers at the C2 address, occupies the network path (DNS or route hijack), or acquires the hardcoded fallback domain obtains unauthenticated remote code execution as root.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Zbtlink · CPE2801 FirmwareZbtlink · WE1026-5G-WD FirmwareZbtlink · WE1326 FirmwareZbtlink · WE2007 FirmwareZbtlink · WE2008-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink · WE2416 FirmwareZbtlink · WE3326 FirmwareZbtlink · WE5927 FirmwareZbtlink · WE5931AC FirmwareZbtlink · WE5931 FirmwareZbtlink · WE826-T3-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink · WG108 FirmwareZbtlink · WG1602 FirmwareZbtlink · WG1608-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink · WG209 FirmwareZbtlink · WG2105 FirmwareZbtlink · WG2107 FirmwareZbtlink · WG259 FirmwareZbtlink · WG3526 FirmwareZbtlink · ZBT-Z8102AX-2SIM Firmwarepublic PoCs found — 1
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