Description
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.
Published: 2012-11-27
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: 8.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-5924 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.
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Mikrotik Routeros
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:21:28.377Z

Reserved: 2012-11-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6050

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-27T04:49:26.863

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-6050

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