Vulnerability · Published Aug 25, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-34960

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-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 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 24.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The container package in MikroTik RouterOS 7.4beta4 allows an attacker to create mount points pointing to symbolic links, which resolve to locations on the host device. This allows the attacker to mount any arbitrary file to any location on the host.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://nns.ee/blog/2022/06/21/routeros-container-rce.html x_refsource_MISC
https://nns.ee/blog/2022/08/05/routeros-container-rce.html x_refsource_MISC