FKIE_CVE-2026-67278

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-05 20:17 - Updated: 2026-09-25 14:56
Severity
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
MikroTik RouterOS accepts malformed RSA/PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures across RSA-based services, including TLS/X.509 certificate validation and SSH host-key authentication. Because its trust store includes an e=3 root CA, an attacker controlling or redirecting an outbound RouterOS TLS connection can use the root’s public certificate - without its private key - to forge a trusted intermediate and issue certificates for arbitrary hostnames, enabling TLS server impersonation. The same permissive verification also undermines RSA-based SSH authentication. This issue affects only 7.x branch was fixed in versions: 7.23.6 (Long-term) and 7.24.3 (Stable). Releases 7.23.4 and 7.24.2 included an incomplete fix.
References
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/mikrotik-routeros-cveThird Party Advisory
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/vulnerabilities-in-mikrotik-routeros-actively-exploited/Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cvd@cert.plhttps://forum.mikrotik.com/t/7-23-6-long-term-is-released/273139Release Notes
cvd@cert.plhttps://forum.mikrotik.com/t/7-24-3-stable-is-released/273138Release Notes
cvd@cert.plhttps://mikrotik.com/supportsec/september-2026-vulnerability/Vendor Advisory
cvd@cert.plhttps://npratley.net/reversing-mikrotiks-silent-patch-the-routeros-7-23-4-fix-they-wouldnt-explain/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mikrotik routeros *
mikrotik routeros *
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