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MikroTik RouterOS Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2018-1158)
medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502070
Synopsis
The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.Description
Mikrotik RouterOS before 6.42.7 and 6.40.9 is vulnerable to a stack exhaustion vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the HTTP server via recursive parsing of JSON.This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.
Solution
Refer to the vendor advisory.See Also
https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs/bugfix-release-tree
https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 502070
Version: 1.1
Type: remote
Family: Tenable.ot
Published: 2/27/2024
Updated: 2/28/2024
Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4
Temporal Score: 3.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1158
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.40.9, cpe:/o:mikrotik:routeros:6.42.7
Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/MikroTik
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-1158
CWE: 674