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MikroTik RouterOS Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2019-13955)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502057

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Mikrotik RouterOS before 6.44.5 (long-term release tree) is vulnerable to stack exhaustion. By sending a crafted HTTP request, an authenticated remote attacker can crash the HTTP server via recursive parsing of JSON. Malicious code cannot be injected.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?000600fe

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jul/20

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 502057

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13955

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.44.5, cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.45

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/MikroTik

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13955

CWE: 674