MikroTik RouterOS up to 6.43/7.16.1 Winbox Service timing discrepancy

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MikroTik RouterOS up to 6.43/7.16.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Winbox Service. The manipulation leads to timing discrepancy. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-54772. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MikroTik RouterOS up to 6.43/7.16.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Winbox Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a timing discrepancy vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-208. Two separate operations in a product require different amounts of time to complete, in a way that is observable to an actor and reveals security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in the Winbox service of MikroTik RouterOS v6.43 through v7.16.1. A discrepancy in response times between connection attempts made with a valid username and those with an invalid username allows attackers to enumerate for valid accounts.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-54772 since 12/06/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-52669). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Router Operating System

Vendor

• MikroTik

Name

• RouterOS

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 6.16
• 6.17
• 6.18
• 6.19
• 6.20
• 6.21
• 6.22
• 6.23
• 6.24
• 6.25
• 6.26
• 6.27
• 6.28
• 6.29
• 6.30
• 6.31
• 6.32
• 6.33
• 6.34
• 6.35
• 6.36
• 6.37
• 6.38
• 6.39
• 6.40
• 6.41
• 6.42
• 6.43
• 7.16.0
• 7.16.1

License

• commercial

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