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CVE-2018-1157
Mikrotik RouterOS before 6.42.7 and 6.40.9 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker can crash…
Medium6.5EPSS 4.4%
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- tenable
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.7% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-21 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs/bugfix-release-tree (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20190723 Two vulnerabilities found in MikroTik's RouterOS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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