Fortinet Discovers MikroTik RouterOS Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in MikroTik's RouterOS.
RouterOS is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, which implements functionalities normally used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). RouterOS, supported by MikroTik and its user community, provides a wide variety of configuration examples. RouterOS is embedded in MikroTik's RouterBOARD product line, focused on small- and medium-sized internet access providers that typically provide broadband access in remote areas.
A Denial of Service exists in the MikroTik's RouterOS before 6.46. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to restart the system via a crafted UPnP XML payload.
Solutions
Users should apply patch provided by MikroTik
Timeline
Fortinet reported the vulnerability to MikroTik on August 21, 2019.
MikroTik confirmed the vulnerability on August 23, 2019 and stated this vulnerability only affects to RouterOS before 6.46. Later versions are no longer using libexpat.
MikroTik released the patch for this vulnerability within 6.45.5 stable release on 28 August, 2019.