CVE-2023-30799 Public exploit Critical · 9.1 EPSS 1.4%
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator Privilege Escalation
MikroTik · RouterOS
Official description · CVE.org
MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue. A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface. The attacker can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
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62.7 / 100
- Exploited
- Yes, in VulnCheck KEV
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
First seen exploited 14 months after disclosure. Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 2 years after disclosure.
- Disclosedday 0
- First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+14 mo
- Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+2 yrs
MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. techniques
No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 5 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.
- NCSC Advisory - 18th Sept 2024 - PRC Botnet14 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations7 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations7 Jan 2025
- People's Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations2 Oct 2024
- CSA-PRC-LINKED-ACTORS-BOTNET19 Sep 2024