Vulnerability · Published Jul 19, 2023 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2023-30799MikroTik RouterOS Administrator Privilege Escalation
Critical 9.1
In plain English
A critical-severity privilege mismanagement in RouterOS from MikroTik. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue. A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface. The attacker can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://vulncheck.com/advisories/mikrotik-foisted third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/MarginResearch/FOISted exploit