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Backdoors in Zhone GPON 2520 and Alcatel Lucent I240Q
Blog January 8, 2015

Backdoors in Zhone GPON 2520 and Alcatel Lucent I240Q

While examining the "dropbear" binary for the Zhone GPON 2520 and Alcatel Lucent I240Q, we found that both routers have backdoors that allow users with SSH access to connect to these devices with maximum privileges.