CVE-2026-66747

ENDLESSDOORS: Zbtlink Router rctl/kworker Phone-Home Root Implant

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jul 27, 2026

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Description

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.

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
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CPE2801 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.10.09Affected
WE1026-5G-WD FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.04.07Affected
WE1326 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.02.18_1Affected
WE2007 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 23.08.12Affected
WE2008-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink
  • 23.08.11Affected
WE2416 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.03.22_1Affected
WE3326 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 20.09.30Affected
WE5927 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.08.10Affected
WE5931 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.05.31Affected
WE5931AC FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.05.31Affected
WE826-T3-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.12.21Affected
WG108 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.08.06_1Affected
WG209 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.07.28Affected
WG259 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 21.03.23Affected
WG1602 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 23.10.11Affected
WG1608-DSIM FirmwareZbtlink
  • 23.03.16Affected
WG2105 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.05.30Affected
WG2107 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.09.08Affected
WG3526 FirmwareZbtlink
  • 22.11.01Affected
ZBT-Z8102AX-2SIM FirmwareZbtlink
  • 7.6.7.2-25.0814_114432Affected

References

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