CVE-2017-20204

DBLTek GoIP Telnet Admin Interface Undocumented Backdoor

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Oct 15, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2025
Reserved
Oct 14, 2025

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Description

DBLTek GoIP devices (models GoIP 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32) contain an undocumented vendor backdoor in the Telnet administrative interface that allows remote authentication as an undocumented user via a proprietary challenge–response scheme which is fundamentally flawed. Because the challenge response can be computed from the challenge itself, a remote attacker can authenticate without knowledge of a secret and obtain a root shell on the device. This can lead to persistent remote code execution, full device compromise, and arbitrary control of the device and any managed services. The firmware used within these devices was updated in December 2016 to make this vulnerability more complex to exploit. However, it is unknown if DBLTek has taken steps to fully mitigate.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.3 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1242 Inclusion of Undocumented Features or Chicken Bits

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GoIPDBL Technology (DBLTek)
  • *Affected

References

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