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CVE-2020-20248

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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

Affected products

• MikroTik RouterOS: 6.47

References

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
• https://github.com/cq674350529/pocs_slides/blob/master/advisory/MikroTik/CVE-2020-20248/README.md
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
• https://github.com/cq674350529/pocs_slides/blob/master/advisory/MikroTik/CVE-2020-20248/README.md

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