CVE-2018-14847

critical

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.

From the Tenable Blog

MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerabilities: There’s More to CVE-2018-14847
MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerabilities: There’s More to CVE-2018-14847

Published: 2018-10-10

In the course of preparing his Derbycon 8.0 presentation on RouterOS vulnerabilities, Tenable Researcher Jacob Baines discovered more to CVE-2018-14847 than originally known. Here’s how it could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain access to the underlying operating system of MikroTik routers.

References

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-02

Updated: 2025-04-28

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.8941