CVE-2020-20230

Mikrotik RouterOs before stable 6.47 suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption in the sshd process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

CVSS v3.1

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Published

2021-07-19

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• cq674350529/pocs_slides/blob/master/advisory/MikroTik/CVE-2020-20230/README.md

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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