CVE-2026-66747

CRITICAL

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit technical-description exploit
VulnCheck Research Blog
https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/zbt-endlessdoors
Product product
Vendor Firmware Download Page
https://www.zbtlink.com/pages/zbt-router-firmware-download
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zbt-endlessdoors

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0058
EPSS Percentile 44.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-506
Status published
Products (20)
Zbtlink/CPE2801 Firmware 22.10.09
Zbtlink/WE1026-5G-WD Firmware 21.04.07
Zbtlink/WE1326 Firmware 22.02.18_1
Zbtlink/WE2007 Firmware 23.08.12
Zbtlink/WE2008-DSIM Firmware 23.08.11
Zbtlink/WE2416 Firmware 21.03.22_1
Zbtlink/WE3326 Firmware 20.09.30
Zbtlink/WE5927 Firmware 22.08.10
Zbtlink/WE5931 Firmware 22.05.31
Zbtlink/WE5931AC Firmware 22.05.31
... and 10 more
Published Aug 05, 2026
Tracked Since Aug 05, 2026