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CVE-2023-30799 (GCVE-0-2023-30799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-19 14:56 – Updated: 2025-11-21 16:13
VLAI
Title
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-24 18:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
MikroTik RouterOS Affected: 0 , < 6.49.7 (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.48.6 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:o:mikrotik:routeros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:mikrotik:routeros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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              "tags": [
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}



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