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MikroTik RouterOS Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2018-1157)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502073

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Mikrotik RouterOS before 6.42.7 and 6.40.9 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the HTTP server and in some circumstances reboot the system via a crafted HTTP POST request.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.

Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

See Also

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

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs/bugfix-release-tree

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-21

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 502073

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.40.9, cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.42.7

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/MikroTik

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1157

CWE: 400