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FKIE_CVE-2018-14847

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-08-02 07:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:41

Severity

9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Summary

MikroTik RouterOS through 6.42 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and remote authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the WinBox interface.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/BasuCert/WinboxPoC	Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/BigNerd95/WinboxExploit	Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/blob/master/bug_hunting_in_routeros_derbycon_2018.pdf	Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/bytheway	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/cve_2018_14847	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://mikrotik.com/supportsec/winbox-vulnerability	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://n0p.me/winbox-bug-dissection/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45578/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/BasuCert/WinboxPoC	Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/BigNerd95/WinboxExploit	Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/blob/master/bug_hunting_in_routeros_derbycon_2018.pdf	Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/bytheway	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/poc/cve_2018_14847	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://n0p.me/winbox-bug-dissection/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45578/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-14847	US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mikrotik	routeros	*

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CVE-2018-14847 (GCVE-0-2018-14847)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-02 07:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45

Summary

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-04 20:41 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45578/	exploit
https://github.com/BigNerd95/WinboxExploit
https://github.com/tenable/routeros/blob/master/b…
https://github.com/BasuCert/WinboxPoC
https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/p…
https://n0p.me/winbox-bug-dissection/
https://github.com/tenable/routeros/tree/master/p…
https://mikrotik.com/supportsec/winbox-vulnerability
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Date Public

2018-08-02 00:00

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
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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