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medium 6.4

CVE-2012-6050 json

The winbox service in MikroTik RouterOS 5.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), read the r…

published 2012-11-27 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5924

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.4%
EPSS 9.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-18817)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-18817 Mikrotik Router - Denial of Service dos, 2012-05-01
  • 133tsec.com http://www.133tsec.com/2012/04/30/0day-ddos-mikrotik-server-side-ddos-attack/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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