Vulnerability · Published Jul 21, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-20221
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.9% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.9%top 13.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Mikrotik RouterOs before 6.44.6 (long-term tree) suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/cerm process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/30 x_refsource_MISC
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/1 x_refsource_MISC