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MikroTik RouterOS Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2018-5951)

high Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502011

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

An issue was discovered in Mikrotik RouterOS. Crafting a packet that has a size of 1 byte and sending it to an IPv6 address of a RouterOS box with IP Protocol 97 will cause RouterOS to reboot imminently. All versions of RouterOS that supports EoIPv6 are vulnerable to this attack.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

See Also

https://github.com/Nat-Lab/CVE-2018-5951

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 502011

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 2/27/2024

Updated: 2/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/MikroTik

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5951