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CVE-2012-6050

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The winbox service in MikroTik RouterOS 5.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), read the router version, and possibly have other impacts via a request to download the router's DLLs or plugins, as demonstrated by roteros.dll.

Affected products

• MikroTik RouterOS: 5.15

References

• http://www.133tsec.com/2012/04/30/0day-ddos-mikrotik-server-side-ddos-attack/
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18817
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75327
• http://www.133tsec.com/2012/04/30/0day-ddos-mikrotik-server-side-ddos-attack/
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18817
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75327

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