Engineers at Chinese firm Lenovo have identified a backdoor in the networking switched namely Rackswitch and BladeCenter firmware. The company stated that the backdoor, referred to in the company’s security advisory (CVE-2017-3765) as “HP backdoor,” was discovered after carrying out an internal security audit of firmware for all the products featuring in its portfolio after acquisitions of other firms. It was revealed that the backdoor affects the above-mentioned networking switches’ Enterprise Network Operating System (ENOS).

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