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

CVE-2026-66747

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.

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CVSS Base Score
9.3
CRITICAL
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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-506 ↗CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code

Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
Zbtlink CPE2801 Firmware 22.10.09 (affected)
Zbtlink WE1026-5G-WD Firmware 21.04.07 (affected)
Zbtlink WE1326 Firmware 22.02.18_1 (affected)
Zbtlink WE2007 Firmware 23.08.12 (affected)
Zbtlink WE2008-DSIM Firmware 23.08.11 (affected)
Zbtlink WE2416 Firmware 21.03.22_1 (affected)
Zbtlink WE3326 Firmware 20.09.30 (affected)
Zbtlink WE5927 Firmware 22.08.10 (affected)
Zbtlink WE5931 Firmware 22.05.31 (affected)
Zbtlink WE5931AC Firmware 22.05.31 (affected)
Zbtlink WE826-T3-DSIM Firmware 21.12.21 (affected)
Zbtlink WG108 Firmware 21.08.06_1 (affected)
Zbtlink WG209 Firmware 21.07.28 (affected)
Zbtlink WG259 Firmware 21.03.23 (affected)
Zbtlink WG1602 Firmware 23.10.11 (affected)
Zbtlink WG1608-DSIM Firmware 23.03.16 (affected)
Zbtlink WG2105 Firmware 22.05.30 (affected)
Zbtlink WG2107 Firmware 22.09.08 (affected)
Zbtlink WG3526 Firmware 22.11.01 (affected)
Zbtlink ZBT-Z8102AX-2SIM Firmware 7.6.7.2-25.0814_114432 (affected)

References & Technical Advisories

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Threat Intelligence Signals

Identity & Timeline

StatusPUBLISHED
Assigning AuthorityVulnCheck · Bug Bounty Provider · USA
Reserved2026-07-27T16:27:47
Published2026-08-05T10:50:45
Patch Date2026-08-05
Last Updated2026-08-05T14:20:12

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