CVE-2020-20221 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Mikrotik RouterOs before 6.44.6 (long-term tree) suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/cerm process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

Published: 2021-07-21

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: 2.9% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:mikrotik:routeros:*:*:*:*:ltr:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-13008	Mikrotik RouterOs before 6.44.6 (long-term tree) suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/cerm process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02907.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/30
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/1

History

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Subscriptions

Mikrotik Routeros

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-07-21T13:49:07.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T14:15:29.022Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-20221

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-21T15:15:12.777

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:02:53.083

Link: CVE-2020-20221

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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