bugdoor

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Noun

bugdoor (plural bugdoors)

1. (computing) A security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.
   • 2014 December 8, Samuel Junjie Tan, Sergey Bratus, Travis Goodspeed, “Interrupt-oriented bugdoor programming: a minimalist approach to bugdooring embedded systems firmware”, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '14)‎^[1], New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 116–125:

     a novel, minimalist approach to constructing deniable bugdoors for microcontroller firmware

   • 2024 April 13, Mario Lins, René Mayrhofer, Michael Roland, Daniel Hofer, Martin Schwaighofer, “On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ”, in arXiv‎^[2], →DOI:

     provide the cover of plausible deniability for attackers in the form of exploitable “bugdoor” attacks

Hypernyms

• backdoor