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WARNING_YOU_ ARE_VULNERABLE.txt

JGrana

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Interesting issue with an RT-AC68U running ASUS latest firmware....

A warning popped up today that said my router was "vulnerable".

In doing some looking around, I noticed a shell script that started after a reboot.

The script is in /usr/sbin. The name of the executable is usbtest.sh.

It's contents are (simply):

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf `find -name WARNING_YOU_ARE_VULNERABLE.txt`

Anyone see this (usbtest.sh) in their routers /usr/sbin directory?

I am out of town today, so I did not see the pop up first hand. My wife (very non technical) told me this comes up whenever she starts IE and it won't go away.

I will be home tomorrow, but in the mean time I ssh into a client (that had port forwarding of ssh), then telneted to the Asus RT-AC68U. I have been searching, but don't see the txt file it was trying to remove.
It might have already deleted it.

Hmmm....ideas?

thx
 
Interesting issue with an RT-AC68U running ASUS latest firmware....

A warning popped up today that said my router was "vulnerable".

In doing some looking around, I noticed a shell script that started after a reboot.

The script is in /usr/sbin. The name of the executable is usbtest.sh.

It's contents are (simply):

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf `find -name WARNING_YOU_ARE_VULNERABLE.txt`

Anyone see this (usbtest.sh) in their routers /usr/sbin directory?

I am out of town today, so I did not see the pop up first hand. My wife (very non technical) told me this comes up whenever she starts IE and it won't go away.

I will be home tomorrow, but in the mean time I ssh into a client (that had port forwarding of ssh), then telneted to the Asus RT-AC68U. I have been searching, but don't see the txt file it was trying to remove.
It might have already deleted it.

Hmmm....ideas?

thx

Nothing to worry about as long as you are running the latest version. That's just cleanup code added by the last GPL to remove a warning about the old insecure FTP settings.
 
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