A vulnerability was found in MikroTik RouterOS up to 6.48.6/6.49.7 on Winbox (Router Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Winbox/HTTP Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue. A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface. The attacker can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

The weakness was released 07/19/2023. The advisory is shared for download at vulncheck.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-30799 since 04/18/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/15/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Router Operating System

Vendor

• MikroTik

Name

• RouterOS

Version

• 6.48.0
• 6.48.1
• 6.48.2
• 6.48.3
• 6.48.4
• 6.48.5
• 6.48.6
• 6.49.0
• 6.49.1
• 6.49.2
• 6.49.3
• 6.49.4
• 6.49.5
• 6.49.6
• 6.49.7

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• commercial

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