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>I can't think of many embedded devices that don't use Busybox instead.

What about all these shitty wireless routers out there? I think in the past they were QNX-based but they've long moved to being linux based. We know popular projects like dd-wrt and pfsense are probably okay (ash instead of bash), but what about the thousands of others? My own router is supplied by AT&T for its u-verse service. God knows what its running. Or all the NAS devices out there and load balancers, etc.

I guess we'll find out when the whitehats are done scanning the entire internet for vulnerable hosts.



I have a higher-end (albeit still consumer-level) ASUS wireless router that uses Busybox. I can't imagine that cheaper, lower-end models would be using full GNU bash instead.




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