CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8338
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
A vulnerability in MikroTik Version 6.38.5 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust all available CPU via a flood of UDP packets on port 500 (used for L2TP over IPsec), preventing the affected router from accepting new connections; all devices will be disconnected from the router and all logs removed automatically.
Affected configurations
• mikrotik routeros 6.38.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/May/59 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017050062 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142538/MikroTik-RouterBoard-6.38.5-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2064 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/May/59 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017050062 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142538/MikroTik-RouterBoard-6.38.5-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2064 Exploit, Third Party Advisory