Actively exploited · Published Aug 2, 2018 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2018-14847
Critical 9.1 Exploited
In plain English
A critical-severity path traversal in RouterOS from MikroTik. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on December 1, 2021). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 96.0% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 1, 2022.
Official description
MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
References
- 45578 exploit
- https://github.com/BigNerd95/WinboxExploit
- https://github.com/tenable/routeros/blob/master/bug_hunting_in_routeros_derbycon_2018.pdf
- https://github.com/BasuCert/WinboxPoC
- https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/cve_2018_14847
- https://n0p.me/winbox-bug-dissection/
- https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/bytheway
- https://mikrotik.com/supportsec/winbox-vulnerability
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-14847 government-resource