Does your router have a backdoor?

Bahahahahaha how many morons can you fit in one thread? xD

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Originally Posted by Rishwin

Bahahahahaha how many morons can you fit in one thread? xD

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There's more coming!
The next one will probably be "what's a router?"

No next will be "I just formatted, I'm safe" and they'll be like an admin of some MMO server

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Originally Posted by Rishwin

I wouldn't be surprised if it's used by ISP's to push settings into the router or something similar, i doubt it's for NSA snooping lol.

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Correct, there's more info to it in this document. It's a shell that allows remote control, pretty sure it's for ISP's.

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Originally Posted by MentaL

Face palm...

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3

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Sry, router configuration / network systems are not my best ride. As I know a port is only open, when an application is listening to it. When there is no application that listens to the port, then it's not open. So I misunderstood something, because this open port is not a usual open port.

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Originally Posted by Dave

Remote exploits.

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Reading http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...r-exploit.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6997159 I finally got the line.
This open port grants access to the router configuration, not the PC system at all. So the software that is listening to the port is burned on the router (firmware). Sadly with the exploit everybody can get access to the routers configuration from outside without admin password. When anybody modifies anything i.e. port forwarding he can get access on the PC system, too.

Did I understand this right now? Please correct me when I'm wrong and stop the facepalm. >.>

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Originally Posted by Solaire

This news is over 10 years old, first publicly posted here.

Correct, there's more info to it in this document. It's a shell that allows remote control, pretty sure it's for ISP's.

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The last documentation is very horrible, but at the end your statement is correct.

So I hope the manufacturers will do something against the exploit. Or should we also really protect us against the services of the ISP?

K so i did a little data gathering today, we have the majority of our customers running Technicolor/Thompson/Alcatel routers and every single one of them has the default port for remote access into that router in the 32000-35000 range. Which to me, seems like a huge coincidence considering the range.

I am now 95% certain this port is used by the ISP to remotely access / remotely push settings into the router when required.

Your router does not provide the port 32764 backdoor. Glückwunsch!
Motorola's safe I guess :blush:

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Originally Posted by dha12oks

it's not open on my end :L

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With that emoticon, it seemed like you were disappointed.

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Originally Posted by Rishwin

K so i did a little data gathering today, we have the majority of our customers running Technicolor/Thompson/Alcatel routers and every single one of them has the default port for remote access into that router in the 32000-35000 range. Which to me, seems like a huge coincidence considering the range.

I am now 95% certain this port is used by the ISP to remotely access / remotely push settings into the router when required.

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If thomson used their routers to gather other data than firmware then they would probably be one of the few who would know how to do so reliably and in a sneaky way. Those french motherfuckers knew how to build a router and built them so well that it's probably one of the significant contributing factors that sent them into bankruptcy and although I could never obtain firmware for my router the default one and associated software is flawless and still works well today. Which says a lot.

Proud owner of 10 year old low-range thomson router and posting from it.

Temp clean for mine! :)

No backdoor on BT HomeHub 3.

Not effected thank you :)