CVE-2017-7285

Routeros vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

19.3%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

A vulnerability in the network stack of MikroTik Version 6.38.5 released 2017-03-09 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust all available CPU via a flood of TCP RST packets, preventing the affected router from accepting new TCP connections.

Affected vendor

Mikrotik

Affected product

Routeros

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Published

2017-03-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Mikrotik Routeros is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-7285.
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