What is CVE-2018-10070?

CVE-2018-10070 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mikrotik Router, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-04-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-10070?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Mikrotik Router

CVE-2018-10070

A vulnerability in MikroTik Version 6.41.4 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust all available CPU and all available RAM by sending a crafted FTP request on port 21 that begins with many '\0' characters, preventing the affected router from accepting new FTP connections. The router will reboot after 10 minutes, logging a "router was rebooted without proper shutdown" message.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.130 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Mikrotik Router
Mikrotik Router_firmware — versions 6.41.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10070?: CVE-2018-10070 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mikrotik Router, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-04-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-10070?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.