CVE-2012-6050

medium
Published 2012-11-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.4
VIR risk
6.4

Description

The winbox service in MikroTik RouterOS 5.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), read the router version, and possibly have other impacts via a request to download the router's DLLs or plugins, as demonstrated by roteros.dll.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

CWEs

CWE-16

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.