CVE-2012-6050
Description
The winbox service in MikroTik RouterOS 5.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), read the router version, and possibly have other impacts via a request to download the router's DLLs or plugins, as demonstrated by roteros.dll.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
References
- http://www.133tsec.com/2012/04/30/0day-ddos-mikrotik-server-side-ddos-attack/
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18817
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75327
- http://www.133tsec.com/2012/04/30/0day-ddos-mikrotik-server-side-ddos-attack/
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18817
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75327
CWEs
CWE-16
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.