CVE-2026-42375
D-Link DIR-600L Hardware Revision A1 (End-of-Life) contains a hardcoded telnet backdoor. The device starts a telnet daemon at boot via /bin/telnetd.sh with the username "Alphanetworks" and the static password "wrgn35_dlwbr_dir600l" read from /etc/alpha_config/image_sign. The custom telnetd binary accepts a -u user:password flag, and the custom login binary uses strcmp() to validate credentials. Successful authentication grants an unauthenticated attacker on the local network a root shell with full administrative control. The device has reached End-of-Life (EOL) and will not receive patches.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)
- CWE
- CWE-798
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- dlink:dir-600l_firmware