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CVE-2020-5721

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-260

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 products

• MikroTik WinBox: through 3.22

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-23
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-23

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