CVE-2020-20217

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mikrotik RouterOs before 6.47 (stable tree) suffers from an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the /nova/bin/route process. An authenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service due to overloading the systems CPU.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cq674350529/pocs_slides/blob/master/advisory/MikroTik/CVE-2020-20217/README.mdThird Party Advisory
https://mikrotik.com/Vendor Advisory
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cq674350529/pocs_slides/blob/master/advisory/MikroTik/CVE-2020-20217/README.mdThird Party Advisory
https://mikrotik.com/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 8, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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