VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8338

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-05-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A vulnerability in MikroTik Version 6.38.5 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust all available CPU via a flood of UDP packets on port 500 (used for L2TP over IPsec), preventing the affected router from accepting new connections; all devices will be disconnected from the router and all logs removed automatically.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references