CVE-2020-20213

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 7, 2021 at 01:28 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRouterOS

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Mikrotik RouterOs 6.44.5 (long-term tree) suffers from an stack exhaustion vulnerability in the /nova/bin/net process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/10
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://mikrotik.com/

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-674

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