CVE-2018-1157

medium

Description

Mikrotik RouterOS before 6.42.7 and 6.40.9 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the HTTP server and in some circumstances reboot the system via a crafted HTTP POST request.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jul/20

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs

https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs/bugfix-release-tree

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-21

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-08-23

Updated: 2019-07-23

Type: CWE-400

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM