CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5721

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-04-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-04-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-260, CWE-522

Description

MikroTik WinBox 3.22 and below stores the user's cleartext password in the settings.cfg.viw configuration file when the Keep Password field is set and no Master Password is set. Keep Password is set by default and, by default Master Password is not set. An attacker with access to the configuration file can extract a username and password to gain access to the router.

Affected configurations

• mikrotik winbox (<= 3.22)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-260 Password in Configuration File weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References