CVE-2026-103903 (GCVE-0-2026-103903)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-12 10:37 – Updated: 2026-10-13 11:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
MikroTik RouterOS WinBox split-principal authentication bypass allows privilege escalation
Summary
An incorrect authorization vulnerability in the WinBox
authentication flow of MikroTik RouterOS allows a remote authenticated attacker
with credentials for a low-privilege account permitted to use WinBox to obtain
the authorization policy of a different existing account. The stage-one EC-SRP
challenge and proof are verified using the attacker's account, while the
independently supplied stage-two username is used to install the target
account's privileges. By specifying a higher-privilege account such as admin, a
low-privilege user can obtain a full administrative session without knowing the
target account's password and can use that session to increase the privileges
of the attacker's own account.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-13 03:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://mikrotik.com/download/changelogs?channelF… | release-notes |
| https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/7-25rc1-testing-is-r… | release-notes |
| https://br2sec.com/lv/resursi/2026-routeros-winbo… | technical-descriptionthird-party-advisory |
| https://cvd.cert.lv/disclosed/vuln-all-709639748 | government-resource |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.