CVE-2025-56566

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Assigned by CNA: mitre

Published 2026-09-16 · Modified 2026-09-16

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

MikroTik firmware 7.19.4 stores sensitive authentication credentials and network state in cleartext within non-volatile storage. An attacker with physical access to the device can extract this material from an SPI flash dump, without authenticating to the device and without knowledge of the administrative password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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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.

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References

https://github.com/RIFTI-Offensive-Security/security-advisories/blob/main/CVE-2025-56566.md

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.