CVE-2026-66747

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductZbtlink Cpe2801 Firmware
PublishedAug 5, 2026
First seenAug 5, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-506CWE-506

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
zbtlink cpe2801_firmware22.10.09—
zbtlink we1026-5g-wd_firmware21.04.07—
zbtlink we1326_firmware22.02.18_1—
zbtlink we2007_firmware23.08.12—
zbtlink we2008-dsim_firmware23.08.11—
zbtlink we2416_firmware21.03.22_1—
zbtlink we3326_firmware20.09.30—
zbtlink we5927_firmware22.08.10—
zbtlink we5931_firmware22.05.31—
zbtlink we5931ac_firmware22.05.31—
zbtlink we826-t3-dsim_firmware21.12.21—
zbtlink wg108_firmware21.08.06_1—
zbtlink wg209_firmware21.07.28—
zbtlink wg259_firmware21.03.23—
zbtlink wg1602_firmware23.10.11—
zbtlink wg1608-dsim_firmware23.03.16—
zbtlink wg2105_firmware22.05.30—
zbtlink wg2107_firmware22.09.08—
zbtlink wg3526_firmware22.11.01—
zbtlink z8102ax_firmware7.6.7.2-25.0814_114432—

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